13 ROMI “One month. You get one month. If I can’t dig out anything useful in a month, then I won’t be able to find anything useful at all.” I’d told Blue the basics of the case and the situation. The price we agreed on wasn’t cheap, plus I had to cover expenses, but she didn’t particularly want to do the job, so she said that lack of enthusiasm had to be taken into account in her fee. And she’d get the business-class ticket whatever happened. While she might have acted indifferent, I knew who’d gotten the better end of the deal—Davis and I would be shelling out thousands of dollars with no guarantee of results. Good thing modelling paid more than wearing a hot dog, although I had to admit that on occasion, the outfits were just as laughable. Out of the hot dog, Blue had been something