Chapter Seventeen That previous night’s drinking with Gordon—which had just been drinking, Samantha assured Janine during a Facetime call—had broken the ice a little. With her inhibitions down, the sense of dread that Gordon’s presence had been provoking in Samantha was lessened. She had somehow overcome her averseness to being close to Gordon and was now open to servicing her Phillips Corp clients. She began driving into Stockholm herself for the company clients. She was able to assure them that she hadn’t abandoned her Stockholm customers. This gave her the financial stability to be picky about her clients, especially some of the unruly ones at Uppsala, and she had to pass on information to regular clients that her services would be returning to the professional masseuse type. If they

