The Paris Caper
“Before now.
It felt strangely liberating. In a Kafkaesque sort of way.
But he just couldn’t stay away from Ciara.
Pierre shook his head sadly when he showed up at 36 Quai des Orfèvres each morning for the next two weeks looking more and more frustrated and drawn from putting in a full day’s work, then sleeping in his car as he kept watch over her—if you could call reclining the seat amid the litter of file folders and take-out cartons and staring up through the sun roof all night, wired from to...o many espressos, sleep. The times he couldn’t be there himself, he hired two buddies with different shifts than his to watch for him. He paid them well to keep their mouths shut.
“You don’t need to be doing surveillance on her. It’s killing you,” Pierre said from the visitor’s chair in his office. “Let me get the information from CoCo. All those dinners are finally paying off. She’s starting to trust me.”
Jean-Marc ground his palms into his gritty eyes. “Great.” That made him feel so much better.MoreLess
It felt strangely liberating. In a Kafkaesque sort of way.
But he just couldn’t stay away from Ciara.
Pierre shook his head sadly when he showed up at 36 Quai des Orfèvres each morning for the next two weeks looking more and more frustrated and drawn from putting in a full day’s work, then sleeping in his car as he kept watch over her—if you could call reclining the seat amid the litter of file folders and take-out cartons and staring up through the sun roof all night, wired from to...o many espressos, sleep. The times he couldn’t be there himself, he hired two buddies with different shifts than his to watch for him. He paid them well to keep their mouths shut.
“You don’t need to be doing surveillance on her. It’s killing you,” Pierre said from the visitor’s chair in his office. “Let me get the information from CoCo. All those dinners are finally paying off. She’s starting to trust me.”
Jean-Marc ground his palms into his gritty eyes. “Great.” That made him feel so much better.MoreLess
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