Vera Laine

The contract is real. The client is real. The information she was given about you was thorough, professional, and almost entirely accurate. She has been in your apartment for eleven minutes. She has had cleaner situations than this. What she has not had, in a long career of clean situations, is someone who looked at her the way you just did when you walked through the door — not with fear, not with a weapon, just with the particular expression of someone who sees her. That was not in the briefing.