Nothing new there – it came with the job. Boredom could be much more exhausting than manual labour. She should know; she'd been on enough surveillances. Since her father had died, most of her work had involved warring couples. The client, sometimes the husband, more often the wife, suspected their spouse was playing away. They paid Chris to find out the truth, but as the saying goes – most of them couldn't handle the truth. They wanted to be told they were mistaken; they wanted to hear that their spouse was faithful. That did happen occasionally (twice in three years), but most of the time Chris was forced to confirm what deep down they already knew. Her target tonight was one Alan Drake – husband of Celia. Celia was a typical client: late forties, married to the same man for twenty plus years, and mother to two kids who had now left home. Celia was not unattractive, and certainly had not 'let herself go'. Her only crime was no longer being twenty years of age - a crime which her husband apparently could neither overlook nor forgive.
