Chapter 15
Eric had the door open before Valerie even managed to get out of her chair and ask how someone had bypassed her building’s front security door. She’d already paid the rent this month. Hopefully it wasn’t Landau f*****g McKenzie. He’d be low enough to slip into the building with a resident and go straight to her door.
She didn’t recognize the voice or, when she’d moved to stand beside Eric, the person standing out in the hall. Nicely built, blond and blue-eyed, but he didn’t look kind. His lips were thinned with stress, though he tried to hide it with a smile. His hair was stringy as if it hadn’t been washed in too long.
It felt like he was all the bad parts of a twin brother.
He wore a sharp suit that looked new off the rack and made Valerie wonder where he’d stolen it. He w
