Chapter Eight
Maybe More Than Slightly Creepy
The next morning, Mr. Polonio sits at the desk in his room. He’s blissfully unaware of what transpired in his house the previous night, and, being an early riser, he’s already well into the day’s tasks, despite it being a Saturday. At the moment, he’s on the phone with his good friend Ray Naldo, a Princeton professor who teaches every summer at Leo’s study abroad program in Paris.
“Yes, yes, please tell Leo that he needs to answer my texts,” says Mr. Polonio in a brusque voice. “I just put more money in his bank account. Oh, and it would be great if you could, you know, uh…maybe find out more about his behavior. I don’t know what he gets up to when he’s not at home, and it’s not that I need to know or anything, but I get worried about him so
