Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Hot Mic
Lionel stopped at the lectern, close enough to Rowan to share a cup of tea.
He smiled the old smile, warm, ruddy, with the half-moon glasses pushed up on his forehead.
"Eight forty-one," he said. "Nineteen minutes, my boy. Do you know, I almost envy you?"
Rowan said nothing.
I sat three rows from the dais with my hands in my lap, and watched the red light on the base of the nearest microphone.
It glowed, and not a single person in the ballroom had looked at it.
"All this noble talk," said Lionel. "Frank Dwyer in his little letter. It's very touching. You've turned out your father's son."
"Tell me about Frank," Rowan said.
He said it as flatly as I would have, with no heat in it at all.
I felt my own breath stop.
It was the way I'd taught a rookie to open an interview, and he had stolen it, in a week, over a dead woman.
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