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up?’
    â€˜Just a little something I need from you.’
    She tried to suppress the impatience in her voice. When Lucky wanted something she wanted it immediately. ‘What?’ she asked edgily.
    â€˜Retribution.’
    â€˜Huh?’
    â€˜The scum-in-laws, an’ all the bloodsuckers around ’em.’
    â€˜Yes?’
    â€˜I want you to nail ’em, girlie. Nail ’em good.’
    â€˜I plan to.’
    â€˜My way.’
    She continued to curb her impatience. ‘What’s your way?’
    â€˜Before you gain control, you take a job at the studio. You’ll be assistant to Herman Stone – he’s my man.’ Abe sparkled as he felt excitement creeping back into his life. ‘An’ when you’re there, right in the thick of it, you’ll catch ’em all doin’ what they shouldn’t be doin’.’ He cackled with delight. ‘Six weeks on the inside, an’ then whammo, girlie, you’re the new boss, an’ you can dump ’em all. Some good plan, huh?’
    Lucky could hardly believe what she was hearing. It was an insane idea. How could she vanish for six weeks and assume another identity? She headed an empire, there was no way she could just disappear. What about Lennie? And Bobby and Brigette? Not to mention all her numerous business commitments?
    â€˜Impossible,’ she said, shaking her head regretfully.
    â€˜If you want my studio you’ll do it,’ Abe retorted, clicking his false teeth. ‘If you
really
want it.’
    She brushed a hand through her dark hair, stood up, and began pacing agitatedly around the room.
    Sure she wanted the studio, but she wasn’t about to jump through hoops to satisfy the whims of a demanding old man. Or was she?
    Hmm… Maybe it wasn’t such an insane idea after all… Maybe it was quite a tempting proposition… a challenge. And there was nothing Lucky enjoyed more than a challenge.
    Undercover she could catch everyone doing what they weren’t supposed to be doing.
    It was kind of a wild scam, an adventure.
    Hmm…
    Abe watched her carefully, crinkling his shrewd eyes as he reached for a glass of prune juice on his desk. ‘No undercover… no sale,’ he said, just to make quite sure she understood his rules.
    Lucky spun around and stared at him. ‘You mean you’d blow this deal?’ she asked incredulously. ‘All that money?’
    Abe smiled, clicking his teeth into a neat porcelain row. They didn’t fit his leathery, lined old face. They looked too new. ‘I’m eighty-eight years old, girlie, what am I gonna do with the money? It ain’t gonna buy me a hard-on, huh?
Huh?
It ain’t gonna raise my schnickel.’
    Lucky grinned, ‘Who knows?’
    â€˜
I
know, girlie, that’s for sure.’
    â€˜Nothing in life is a certainty.’
    Abe clicked his false teeth in and out of his mouth one more time, not exactly an endearing habit. ‘Six weeks,’ he said with surprising firmness. ‘Or we got no deal.’

Chapter 6
    Brigette Stanislopoulos was seventeen years old and undeniably pretty. She had long, naturally blond hair, and a rounded, well-developed figure. She was also an heiress, due to inherit half the Stanislopoulos fortune left to her by her grandfather, Dimitri. She already had her mother’s vast estate in trust, and when she reached twenty-one she was destined to become one of the richest women in the world. A sobering thought, for Brigette, although just a teenager, had already lived a life filled with pain and confusion, and instinctively she knew her huge inheritance was only going to add further complications.
    Money had failed to bring her mother happiness. Poor Olympia – discovered in a seedy New York hotel with the famous rock star Flash, both of them drugged out and dead. Not a very fitting end for Olympia – the girl who should have had everything.
    Brigette was