She shook her head. “I can go to the media room to do that.” She sat opposite him. “Brandt can’t find Miller.”
Colm’s face turned sympathetic. “If Brandt can’t find her, then she probably can’t be found.”
“I get that. But I can’t help feeling that she needs me. I just feel so helpless sitting around her, doing nothing.”
“Not much you can do,” he said bluntly.
“No, I guess not. But there is someone who might be able to find her.”
He sighed. “You need to drop this. If Brandt can’t find her, then no one can.”
“What about that man, Jimmy? Aedan said he knows everyone and everything that goes on in the city. He said that Miller wasn’t with the Vipers voluntarily. He told me to get her out. What if he knows where she is?”
“Jimmy isn’t the most reliable guy,” Colm said warningly. “Rogan refuses to deal with him since he gave him bad information.”
“At the moment I have no information. I just want to exhaust all the possibilities.”
“So ask Rogan when he gets back tonight,” he suggested.
“You think he’ll let me talk to Jimmy?” she said hopefully.
“No,” Colm said bluntly.
“Oh.” She sat back against the couch. She churned the possibilities over in her head. Jimmy seemed her best bet to finding Miller, but how would she get in contact with him?
“This is so frustrating,” she moaned. “All I want to do is find Miller and make sure that she’s okay. Have you lived here long, Colm?”
“About eight years.”
“Your accent isn’t very strong,” she said. Although she’d noticed that when he was more relaxed his accent grew thicker
He shrugged, a guarded look on his face.
“Do you have family here?”
“No, they’re all back in Scotland,” he replied in a voice that warned her to drop this topic. But she was desperate.
“Must be hard to live so far away. Do you miss them?”
“Aye, every day.” His face took on a pensive look. Then he sighed. “All right. Let me see if I can get in contact with him.”
She grinned. “Thank you.”
He pointed a finger at her. “But do not try that on anyone else around here. Someone else might not be so nice if you started asking questions about their family. They’d start to wonder what you wanted and none of their thoughts would be good.”
She sobered up immediately. “Sorry. I didn’t mean anything by bringing them up.”
“Guys around here are very protective of their families. They don’t like to talk about them with strangers, understood?”
Duly chastised, she nodded.
Colm stood.
“How will you find him?” she asked.
Colm checked his watch. “If we leave now, we’ll catch him at Mrs. Chu’s.”
She stood. “Mrs. Chu’s? Is that a Chinese restaurant? Is the food good?”