"I fear if you leave it, I'll be too tempted to toss Selwyn into it and who knows where he'll end up." Mateo was kidding... mostly. Of all his colleagues, Selwyn was perhaps the most... prickly, the opposite of Mateo himself, so he would be the likely candidate if it became an option.

Though she smiled at him, Mateo remembered once again, he was interrupting her and the only reason he hadn't stepped out was that he wasn't exactly supposed to leave anyone unsupervised in here that wasn't in the department itself. So he pressed his lips together and gestured for her to continue.