“She works late.

She’s got some notion about lining up your seconds with the phone company’s switch records.”

“She actually told you that?”

“She told me enough.” Wayne pushed his glasses up.

“Don’t go around me on this one, Claire.

If the review board finds out you’ve been running your own investigation while you’re suspended, that’s not a complaint in a file.

That’s a firing.”

“I know exactly what it is.”