Chapter 36

“What?”

“My ‘going away party.’ I haven’t decided for sure if I’m even going away, for one thing.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Schwartz said dismissively. “I’ve heard all about you and your shingle on the Plaza. Between you and me, I kind of hope you stay. In the meantime, Hortensia O’Brien and Peter Dean are staying through the weekend. Espositio wants them entertained, and he’s not talking a basket of sopaipillas at Tomasita’s. You have a gorgeous house—that doesn’t have six kids running around it, I might add, which was a selling point—and there’s nothing wrong with impressing the hell out of your new boss.”

“Potentialnew boss.”

“Jesus, Danny: stipulated!”