They both ate as if they hadn’t seen food in weeks. For Doyle, it wasn’t that he was hungry, though he was, it was that he wanted to get on with the investigation. There weren’t any knee games this time. Doyle was curious and disappointed about that but he didn’t have time to give it much thought.
They hoofed it to the station and when they got to the squad room, O’Brien was shooting the breeze with Talorico but no one else was around.
“Here come the heroes,” Talorico said and smirked. “I hear you actually didn’t f**k up this time, McCann.”
Doyle said nothing, going instead to the captain’s office.
“He’s not in,” O’Brien called out. “Had some meeting down at headquarters. Said he probably wouldn’t be back today unless this meeting was over early.”
“No big deal,” Kord said. “Just wante
