When You Have a Doubt There is No Doubt

136.

"Something stinks of bullshit."

"I swear Gilbert I washed the van." Gilbert chuckled.

"No not that, this whole job is rotten. Wanda is the kind of busy body who would know someone named Duffy owning a building in her neighborhood, let alone this building, and the job we were called in for are Vorbos, not exactly a difficult pest, the kind of thing you'd bring something minimally for." Clarissa felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.

"So screw the job?"

"Nah we're doing it, but its not the job we were hired to do I can tell you that." Gilbert gathered up a variety of supplies from the van, and handed Clarissa a couple different quivers of arrows. "We're just not going in there un prepared."

"Unlike the last couple jobs."

"Exactly unlike the last couple jobs, but that's how this job goes, you over prepare, you under prepare, you proper prepare, just a lot of preparing, now that word doesn't make sense anymore." Gilbert walked up the steps to the entrance and paused. He could just turn around and ignore the job.

"Want to just walk away?"

"Kind of, but not really, I'm remembering when I was a kid there was this old broken down house near where I lived, plenty of stories from other kids about evil things there."

"Was it haunted or something?"

"Don't really know, I left the area when I was twelve, and when I came back with more knowledge about the way the world really is, the house was gone and some luxury condos were there."

"Haunted condos!"

"Only by the spirits of gentrification, the real monster." Gilbert ascended the steps and opened the door inside. It looked like a run down building, no furniture, carpets or any proof those things ever existed inside. It didn't look any scarier than run down properties everywhere. Clarissa shrugged and stepped inside with Gilbert and the whole room changed. Immediately they were in a fancy lobby with a concierge up front smiling at them.

"Ghosts?" Clarissa looked back to the still open door and wanted to leave.

"Nah ghosts feels different than this, this is something else."

"Do come in if you're the exterminator we called for you're right on time." The way the concierge said time sent a shiver up Gilbert's back, he went to go out the door, but it slammed shut on him.

"Shit."