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Three , out the door, and then taking the stairs into the parking garage across the street At the top of the garage was a gym where I held a membership, and Ipadlocked into a locker, I hit the Nautilus equipment

It felt good to work out a bit I had been slacking

All thoughts of Thomas Farmer, chief board member of Electro Industrial (now deceased), vanished frohts If it sent the right n with, I ht put me back on my normal pay scale

Probably not

Sweat replaced the rainwater in my hair, and after I’d done a rotation on the Nautilus, I went for the treadmill Fro ot off thethe last time I was here, but I didn’t see her do it for anyone else

“Hoas your workout, Evan?”

“Fine,” I replied “Thanks”

Great – she even bothered to look up my name

She enty-four or twenty-five, five-foot-seven, blonde, and she had recently gotten a haircut – the ends were crisp and blunt – but she didn’t like how it had turned out She was trying to pull off a little ponytail for a hairstyle that was far too short, using a rubber band from around a newspaper She didn’t normally wear it that way, or she’d have one of those scrunchie things

The first thought in ree – it was too short It also wasn’t dark enough She didn’t have that classic Italian beauty look I preferred

Preferred?

I wasn’t actually aware I had a preference, and I considered this as I gave her a smile, a quick thanks, and then headed to the shower While the water poured over , s dark eyes flooded ainst my palms

I shook water frohts

I was probably going to have to change gyh I had only recently joined this one I didn’t need anyone paying attention toon h to have a short wait tiyhalf the day there for a sixty-minute workout

Hoain

My aparto River My boss owned the place, and it ca It was a nice perk, though I would have preferred living in the country soht I would like it – open spaces for target shooting and enough room for Odin to run around and chase squirrels and shit

I nodded at Pete, the security guard, as I walked by I had no idea what his last name was, but he was on Rinaldo’s payroll He smiled back at me, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes like it usually did

I glanced ov

er hies He was usually dressed pretty nicely, but on this day his normally ironed shirt rinkled, and the tie didn’t match His eyes were a little bloodshot fro – I couldn’t really tell the difference