TWO DAYS LATER, she met her next client. She opened the door to him and to a strange sensation that she had met him before, that she knew who he was. He was tall, very tall, and exuded an air of supreme confidence. He appeared worldly in the sense that he was accustomed to bending the world to his will, that other people's rules didn’t apply to him. Yet, like the man of two nights ago, he was charming, polite, and well-mannered. She wondered why such men had to seek illicit pleasures. ‘I’m Jim,’ said the man as she ushered him through the front door. ‘And I’m Cleo.’ So normal, so formal. So at odds with the reasons why they were both here. Yet she wasn’t called Cleo and he wasn’t called Jim. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew what his real name was. She had either heard it or read it somewhere. No matter, she thought. Names go with personalities. This isn’t a personality. It’s a client. He was, however, quite interesting. Over champagne he talked about shares, bonds and fu
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