'All I need Fred is for you to contact our own local security company.'

     That got Fred's attention. 'What happened?' 'Do you need to pull out from there?' 'Should I speak to the President?'

     'FRED! Jesus, you're like a mother hen!' I appreciate the concern though..Fred could only sigh.

     ' Like what I said earlier, nothing happened. I need a background check done on someone ASAP.  Tonight.'

     'Not a problem. We subcontract the ADT systems here. I'll have Helena contact them. Who do you want to check out?'

     He hesitated and Gerald wasn't a man who second-guessed himself. 'I don't know her name, but she cleaned the house today.'

     'You want a backgroud check on your housekeeper?' Fred asked in disbelief. 'Did she steal from you?'

     'No. It's complicated, but I want a full report - where she lives, who she dates, how serious it is.'

     'Ohhhhhh,' Fred said. 'You want that kind of background check. That might take some legwork. It's already six o'clock, your time.'

     'I want the information tonight.'

     Fred sigh. 'I'm sure the ADT can get someone out there.'

     'I don't care what it costs. I want the information before eight,' Gerald said.

     'Oh, you'll get it. There's not much you can't get if you're willing to pay the price.'

     'You'd be surprised,' Gerald muttered and hung up.

     At 7:45, a fascinated Gerald discovered that Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu had a secret. The proof, which had arrived just a few minutes before, was spread across Gerald's desk in typed and photographic form. ADT systems was worth their high fee. They'd used his description to discern that she wasn't the regularly scheduled housekeeper, Lakam Chiu, but she could be the woman's sister.

     Shortly after his initial conversation with the private investigator, Gerald had received Kim's driver's license photo in a phone text requesting confirmation of her identity.

     The rest of information had come less than an hour later via a courier. There were financial records, interviews with the neighbors and friends, and a fascinating description of Kim's last boyfriend: a bank manager, good looking, polite, reliable. His initial assessment of Kim had been correct. She like to play it safe.