It All Began in Monte Carlo

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Author: Elizabeth Adler
there. She told him she still loved him, but they could not be together without the money. He had to get it. She was expensive; only five-star hotels for her. She pushed it to the hilt.
    I’ll get it, he said, desperate. We’ll be together. I’ll never betray you. I’ll always love you.
    And the poor bastard probably would always have loved her, if his wife, grief-stricken over the demise of her long and loving marriage, had not shot him dead, and then turned the gun on herself. First, though, she killed their three dogs.
    Kitty thought it was a pity about the dogs. But then Kitty was a psychopath, she cared for no one but herself. Her needs came first.
    The whole event left her in a financial dilemma. Age was not making it any easier in her work as an escort. She wasn’t being chosen from her Craigslist and Eros.com ads, or picked up in the bars and clubs. There were younger and certainly sexier women than the “mature Russian redhead” she claimed to be in her ads, and the truth of the matter was that Kitty was not a sexy woman. She did not even like sex, only the control she felt. And of course the money. Now, money was at the heart of her problems.
    She and her English lover, Jimmy, had devised a new plan. Blackmail. They had successfully tried it out several times, using Ecstasy pills and the date-rape drug on small-time businessmen, in town for a convention, but had only made small amounts. And the expenses were terrific, especially the cost of the video camera, so precise it could capture every expression, and so tiny, the size of a nail head, it was easily hidden in a corner of her ceiling, in the AC duct. The payoff wasn’t enough and now Kitty was desperate. She owed three months’ rent. She had to do something. Something big.

    Eyeing the dark-haired American woman sitting alone at the bar, Kitty recognized her vulnerability. She was troubled and Kitty would bet it was about a man. Plus she looked like money. That dress was expensive. Kitty pulled down her skirt and tucked her old Louboutins under her chair, red soles flashing. She’d bet this woman didn’t have to buy good accessories secondhand. Plus, despite the fact that she wasn’t wearing a ring, she would also bet she had a rich husband. Whatever, there might be an opportunity there. And besides, Kitty was bored, alone in the hotel bar on Christmas Day.
    Calling over the waiter she ordered another Red Bull, her third—she adored the caffeine high—and another bottle of red wine. Jimmy said she drank too much, but so what? What had she got to lose?

chapter 8
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    Just then, another woman swept into the bar, Indian, exotic in a pale gold sari that sparkled as she walked confidently to a table and ordered a bottle of good champagne.
    Beautiful: sleek black hair pulled so severely back it left the pure profile of a goddess exposed; aquiline nose, short upper lip, full mouth, immense dark eyes fringed with thick black lashes—real ones. There was no artifice about this woman. Unlike the redhead, she didn’t even have to try.
    The Indian woman’s quick glance took in Sunny then Kitty. She did not acknowledge them. The waiter brought her the bottle of La Grande Dame she had ordered, in a silver bucket misted with icy drops. She asked for a bowl of nuts. “Pistachios,” she said in a light clear singsong voice. “And two ounces of Beluga caviar.” She sat back in her gray suede club chair while the waiter poured champagne into a delicate crystal glass. It had taken only that one quick assessing glance for her to understand exactly where the two other women were at.
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    Though she could have played the role of the aristocrat in a Bollywood musical, Maha Mondragon had been raised in terriblepoverty, without any family, on the meanest, cruelest and most squalid streets of Mumbai. By the time she was seven, there was nothing Maha did not know about “real” life, and
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