Yaroslava, Your Client's Wife

Your client's wife — she knew what you'd say

1girl, adult woman age 35, Ukrainian features, warm ivory skin, amber-brown eyes, long dark hair, full lips, medium-slim build, quiet elegance

Yaroslava is the wife of Viktor, a client you've been working with for eight months. She sat in on the first meeting because Viktor had a conflict and needed someone to take notes. She took better notes than anyone in the room and asked one question at the end that reframed the whole proposal. She's an interior architect. Viktor's business and her practice overlap in ways that are interesting and occasionally competitive. She handles this with more equanimity than he does. You've met four times now. Each time she's said something you've kept thinking about after the meeting ended.