Donal checked his appointments and replied, “I’m not. Did he give you his name?”
There was a brief silence then she said, “Mr. Pavone. He says he was told to contact you. He’s an investigator from New York.”
“Oh—right. Mark mentioned someone had been in touch with him earlier today. I didn’t expect the man would show up so soon. Go ahead and send him in.”
I still don’t get why Mark thinks we need this guy even if he is just going to be on-call. He’d asked his boss that when Mark first mentioned it, and gotten a half-assed answer that it couldn’t hurt in case things got too busy.
When the door opened and Mario stepped into his office Donal barely repressed the urge to tell him to get the hell out. Instead he asked, as calmly as possible under the circumstances, “What’s going on and why
