She had said a week, a full week, and she meant a full week.
This is why at nine o'clock in the morning, a week after she left, Camille is knocking on Dominic's office door with a manila folder under her arm.
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last night, Camille had just gotten back from a plane trip and a bus ride and a week without her hair-straightener, and had looked it
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Which means that the office should be empty, but (one week) Elvis has his orders, so.
He opens the door a crack, looks through (lanky and awkward and for a moment remarkably like a giraffe, and if he looks a little bit surprised, who can blame him) and opens it the rest of the way.
"Ja?"
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"Do-Senor Greene is out?"
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(Elvis Karine, 37, picked up off the streets by one maternal cousin.)
"He is."
Beat.
"Can I help you?"
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