A Breath of Helium

If Clara had thought Leon Laurent a handful when she was assigned to him, then she had nothing left to say when it came to Sandra Sean, who had somehow misread the description of her duty as housekeeper.

Clearly, she had been introduced as a wardrobe assistant, but the good lady had chosen to rewrite the charts, burdening her with duties which were way far from her job description. Well, unless fetching bottles of wine and cigarettes and booking appointments for medical check ups had become part of the wardrobe.

What puzzled Clara the most apart from the fact that no business meeting had been fixed since she came was why Ms. Sean would leave her home and begin full medicals as soon as she arrived Manhattan. It was as though she were on vacation and Clara had somehow been assigned the responsibility of her maid.

The deja vu she felt each time she received one of Sandra Sean's messages ran so deep it reminded her of the days of working under Karen Seattle.

And worse was that Andre ha