It had taken quite a bit of time to arrange her meeting with her new friend. Getting some time alone with him had required a lot of calling in old favours, making threats, paying bribes. But in the end, Madam Mo had managed to arrange a meeting between herself and Zachariah Asher, the man's predictability helping a great deal. After all, nothing said spoiled rich man like leaving your wife at home where you could get free sex, to go into an expensive hotel room just so you could pay more money to sleep with another woman. All because she was a few years younger than your wife, and would be paid to act like she actually enjoyed sleeping with you rather than hitting you with the brutal honesty in ways that only wives could.