Chapter 36: The Return of Margo Pagino
Downtown Hurricane Bay
HBIA
3:11 P.M.
Not even five minutes after Peter Rotunda exited my office, Margo Pagino helped herself to the seat across from my desk.
“Is it true that you know where Bobby is?”
“Bobby was never missing,” I replied, irritated that she had arrived at my office without an advanced notice.
“Bobby is missing.” She scowled at me by purposely slanting her eyebrows inward, behaving like a concerned mother.
I shook my head. “You’re mistaken, Margo. Something tells me you already know where your son is.”
“Malarkey!” she yelled. She jumped off the seat, but then fell back into its S-shape. She seemed to calm down and said, “My baby boy would not purposely hide from me. I’ve paid you a great amount of money to find him. Would I w
