Ruggerio I let my file fall on my desk with a loud thud as I sigh exhausted. “Where do we start? Mullers or Starks?” “Please not the Starks.” Frank slumps into the seat in front of my desk as I keep standing, passing my hand on my face. “OK, the Mullers then.” Dragging a file over my desk, I open the folder and let my eyes roam over the first page. “This is ridiculous. What is the issue with them?” Frank explains a bunch of things surrounding pending building permits and revisions of infringements at the building sites and I take my seat, burying my head in my hands. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Opening my bottom drawer, I take out a bottle of rum and two glasses. Frank is still rambling about a worker that didn’t appear at work anymore as I fill our glasses with the dark-brown-

