The Billion Dollar Contract
she warned.
"I've been shot. I think I can handle a haircut."
She started cutting. Long sections of dark hair fell to the cracked linoleum floor, and the man in the mirror began to disappear.
"Shorter," I said.
"Adrian—"
"Shorter. Military short. I need to be unrecognizable."
She kept cutting until I looked like a different person—harder, leaner, the kind of man who worked with his hands instead of his brain.
"Now the dye," Elena said. She mixed the chemicals in the small sink, and the ammonia smell filled the tiny space. "This will change everything," she said as she worked the dye through my shortened hair.