kept this as a mental guide and it has always helped her through a job.
Step one: Nicole gathers information from the client. This information includes a photograph, a list of the man’s interests and his profession. Perhaps most importantly, they need to know if the man has a specific type of woman that he is partial to. When Nicole hired Grace, she told her it was partly because of her personality, partly because of her brains, but also because she would be most men’s type.
Step two: they need to know where they will find the man. This is the difficult part, because the men aren’t always where they say they’ll be. If the client is unsure, then Nicole will send someone to follow the subject from his office (if they are testing after work) to the bar, to which Grace will then be summoned. The same applies if he is going out from home.
Step three: having identified the location, Grace will turn up, buy a drink and wait for the right time. If she has to talk to him when he is in a group (men are very rarely on their own), she will ease herself into the group before focusing all her attention on the man she has been employed to test.
Step four: catching the man. If the man is in a large group, this can be tricky. Often men don’t mind being chatted up in front of their friends, but in order to take it further they want to be more discreet. (After all, if they are cheating, the fewer people who know, the better.) If this is the case, then sometimes Grace will give out a mobile number. She has pay as you go mobiles, which the client is billed for because they are discarded after each case.
Step five: getting the evidence for the client. Sometimes it is enough for the client if the man calls Grace, but not always. A client will sometimes push for a date to be arranged, and then for a proposition before believing him a true cheat. Some women are so desperate to be wrong about their partners that they need to hear them asking for sex before they will admit they are rats.
Nicole explains the seduction techniques to the client before they proceed. The women will wear clothes that are attractive but not overtly sexy, they will make eye contact with the man in question, they will laugh at his jokes and tease and tell jokes. They are not employing any new techniques; they go with the tried and tested. They go with what works.
The client will get a verbal report or a recorded one, depending on what she wants. Some women want just to hear the conversation; others go so far as to want to see their men in action. Grace has small cameras and tape recorders that she can easily hide. Whichever, she always reports to Nicole, who reports to her client with total honesty. This, Nicole admits, is the hardest part of the job, and Grace agrees – breaking hearts, because that’s how they see it. But Grace tells herself that she is working for the greater good, because no woman wants to be with a man who is so willing to cheat on her. She is breaking hearts but in the process she is saving hearts. And she really does believe that.
People might assume that a woman working at such a job hates men, but Grace doesn’t, she is really quite keen on them. And she cites Nicole as another example; she has been happily married for so long, she adores her husband, she certainly can’t be seen as a man hater. However, Grace has always believed in fidelity. She has never believed that men should be allowed to use weakness as an excuse for cheating, nor listened when told that men can’t help themselves. She has no respect for men who cheat, but she has even less respect for women who excuse them. Every man can resist and every man should. She would love to tell a woman that a man has resisted her. However, she has never been in that position.
She thinks that perhaps her job has taken on new proportions. She now takes it personally; she needs to find him. She needs to find the man who will be faithful, the man who, when approached by the