The first man's expression didn't move much.
But his eyes did.
Something calculating sitting behind them.
"We're just here to talk," he said.
"No," I said. "You're not."
A door opened somewhere down the corridor.
All four of us heard it at the same time.
An older woman stepped out with a small dog on a lead, already moving toward the elevator without looking our way. She noticed us a second later and stopped.
I looked at her once. "Evening."
She looked between the four of us and made a fast decision. She turned around and went back inside without a word.
Smart woman.
The first man looked back toward me after that.
"This doesn't have to go badly," he said.
"It already went badly when you knocked on a door that had nothing to do with you."
"We were told otherwise."
"Then whoev
