Sounding out

"Have the people from the design department contacted Mr. Lombardi?" Nian Xiaomu asked after she hung up the phone.

Mr. Lombardi was a person who valued punctuality and respected deadlines.

He would not be late in submitting a design draft without any rhyme or reason.

She was worried that he had met with an accident.

"Yes, we had agreed that the submission of the design draft would be today. However, we don't know why, but we haven't been able to contact Mr. Lombardi since yesterday."

The secretary stopped and then continued reporting, "It's already past the submission deadline. It was only when Mr. Lombardi still couldn't be reached today that the colleagues from the design department realized that something might have gone wrong."

"We haven't been able to contact him since yesterday…" Nian Xiaomu crossed her arms and muttered to herself.