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The star attraction is instead the ludicrously rich man in all his glorious eccentricity.”
    “You’re too much, Julie. It will be interesting to have someone around to see all this who’s got some sense and who isn’t already jaded by being around it so often.”
    “The girl Anna you talked about in your diary—she seemed to have some sense.”
    “Yes, but she’s been around all this far too long. She’s desensitized.”
    “And you’re not?”
    “I’m constantly amazed. Even though it’s been almost four months, I still wake up every day not believing where I am.”
    “Give it another couple months. You’ll get used to it if you’re still here.”
    “Thanks for the vote of confidence.”
    “No worries, my lovely lady.”
    In the kitchen we had a cup of coffee each before heading through the garden and the palm trees to Anse Lazio. She gawked at the opulent surroundings. The vacant beach was the icing on the cake.
    “This is crazy. What luck. Who knew a girl could just put in a résumé one day and the next be walking on the beaches of the Bahamas, driving a Porsche Cayenne? And you haven’t even shown me your room yet.”
    “It’s nothing special.”
    “Does it have a view?”
    “You can see the ocean in the distance.”
    She laughed.
    “What?”
    “Unbelievable. You must be one of the luckiest girls alive.”
    “I’m not married to him.”
    “Even better. But what you just said reveals a lot.”
    “I’m just saying—I’m somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole. Still a nanny.”
    “For now.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean?”
    “I know you, Sophia, if only just a bit. I know you enough to know that you’re ambitious.”
    “We’ve talked about a place in the company.”
    “Uh huh.”
    “Uh huh—what?”
    “Just uh huh . First his dick, then the company, then who knows what else.”
    I laughed.
    “Marriage? A baby?”
    “Let’s not get too carried away. I’m not that conventional.”
    But I’m afraid conventional I was becoming.
    “We’re gonna have fun while I’m here. Tons of it. In boatloads like gold bars.” Julie said the silliest things when she was enthusiastic about something. “Oh, Sophia, I’ve missed you so much.”
    She became sentimental and tears formed in her eyes.
    I couldn’t help sharing her emotion and tears formed in mine too. And with this I felt liberated from the prior days of agony. The darkness was made unreal by the light. Life is like the dream of a pendulum swinging between contrasting feelings. And none of it matters because it’s all transient and illusory.
     
    The Eleutheran
    October 18, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
     
    COLOMBIAN MODEL HOSPITALIZED WITH MYSTERY ILLNESS
    Ava Madeiros, aged 26, from Bogota, Colombia, has been hospitalized in Nassau with an extreme illness which causes excessive vomiting and hair loss. No other specifics about the illness have been released. Authorities have not commented as far as what they think the illness may be or the cause of it. Ms. Madeiros was hospitalized yesterday, 17 th October, after falling ill during a photo shoot at Spanish Wells. After the symptoms would not abate but only increased, she was flown to Nassau for hospitalization and treatment. This story will be updated as more information comes in.
     
    Sophia Durant’s Diary (continued)
     
    I read the article online after performing a search for Madeiro’s name with a blocked IP address. I wondered about the other woman who had drunk from the poisoned cup, but since I didn’t have a name I couldn’t search her out. I read the rest of the day’s paper and there was nothing in it about anyone else having fallen ill. I closed the MacBook Pro, set it on the bedside table and watched the covers next to me rise and fall as Julie slept soundly. I put my arms around her and fell asleep.
    I awake from a pleasant dream to the sensation of a soft tongue licking my labia and clitoris. It’s still dark. I peek under the covers to see her