Monday brought Dan his first full workday at Reports, Inc. and, for that, he was very grateful. Meeting new people, finding out exactly what would be required of him, and at last getting on the phone and doing his first underwriting investigation and then writing it up helped keep his mind off Adam and his horrible, unbelievable troubles.
It also kept his thoughts free of Sullivan.
For the most part.
When he got home, exhausted, all that was on his mind was heating up a frozen Tombstone pizza in the oven and vegging the night away in front of the TV. Murphy Brown and Designing Women were both on tonight and the sitcoms offered blessed, mindless—and funny—oblivion.
Just what Dan needed.
The letter waited for him in his mailbox, ready to jerk him back to reality. Other than bills and di
