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The Gardener, In The Pool House, With A Rake
I stared at my client, debating internally how to respond. It wasn't the first time I'd been asked to perform a questionable task in my line of work. Normally I would refuse, but she was offering 50,000 dollars.
"You're putting me at risk here."
"If you don't want to do it, there's plenty of people who could use the money."
She was bluffing. The fact that she was asking me to murder her husband said that she didn't have anywhere else to turn. But then again, where else was I going to make 50,000 dollars as a gardener?
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