Hundred and Eighteen

DIMITRI

This phase; that is if it was a phase (I was seriously beginning to think it wasn't) had not passed yet. Valeria was still behaving as weirdly as ever, even more so. With every passing day, I saw a new facet of her character. I would have been a liar if I said her attitude wasn't giving me a cause for concern. At home and at work, it was the same thing. It was like she had gotten a whole new personality, albeit an unpleasant one. One thing I was sure of was that I had to get to the bottom of this. My work lying abandoned, I thought of ways by which I could get to know what was really going on with her. First, I had to be sure that Valeria's new attitude was not all in my head. Someone else had to confirm that Valeria had changed, that I was not just imagining things.

Having come to this decision, I quickly left my office, went over to the corridor where Vance was standing guard. I gestured for him to follow me to a place where we could not be overheard.

"I have a job for you