"No." There's some kind of glint in Jason's eyes, something that in an animal would be predatory but in a man just looks calculating, that betrays a bit of the reason Jason's as successful as he is as an Escort. He can find the words that will resonate in the heads of the people whose wallets he's angling at. "Say that again. About what you're redeeming yourself from. Not the rest of...whatever that was."

He holds out his phone, opening a function that will record what Alain says.