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Chapter 1

Sometimes you can tell how expensive the clothes are in a store by ho they’ve decided to hang up on the rails One end of a fat straw buried deeply in her frappuccino, and the other caught helplessly between perfect teeth, Sash sweeps her hand idly through the half a dozen thousand dollar dresses, as though more interested by the way they feel than the way they look

Waiting anxiously at the super to work, seems like a distant memory from someone else’s life Not only does she have the power to buy anything that her heart desires, she’s finally got the one thing that et her Dante

A sour faced assistant observes her closely, suspicious she’s just another one of these woesture isn’t returned Instead the woht find those a little out of your price range, I’m afraid We’re a boutique shop”

Sash doesn’t feel the need to rise to the bait She’s happy today She’s dancing again She’s staying in one of the most expensive hotels in the city Ok, Dante still hasn’t called, but after what happened last week, she knows exactly how he feels about her She can still feel her pussy throb, her skin tingle with electricity just to think his name Almost absentmindedly, she puts her hand on her belly and wonders whether it’ll be a boy or a girl

Dante If she plays by his rules, he’ll be hers She just has to wait for hi to come back from a distant adventure and claim her once and for all

“Do you have this in a size two?” Sash asks, picking one of the dresses out at randon, but that wouldn’t really be the point of buying it anyway

“That dress is six thousand dollars”, the woman says

“Oh”, Sash says, letting it go quickly, a disgusted look on her face

The assistant sly, her hands behind her back, while she rocks forward onto the balls of her feet It’s an action that says “I knew it I saw you ayou can afford these clothes”

“Don’t you have anything e, delighted to see the color drain quickly from the woman’s stone-like face

A little flustered now, the assistant says, “I hope you don’t think I’ rude, but it’s important for me to check, especially with first time customers Are you sure you are able-”

Even before the woe wad of money out of her purse There must be over ten thousand dollars there

“Wait, ain in her handbag, even though the assistant now has her hands up defensively and is telling her not to worry

“No wait”, Sash says,a point “Here, hold this”

She gives the woman her now empty frappuccino cup The wo the container carefully on the counter with the very tips of her fake-nailed fingers, should Sash request it back again

Sash pulls out

twotheht I had soe in here Of course I can pay by card if it’s not enough I only got it out because some places don’t accept plastic”

The woman is crimson with embarrassment

“I’et all sorts of people in here pretending to be able to afford it, you know”

“That’s ok”, Sash says with a smile, “I would have done exactly the sa for a start That’s definitely not fro like that”

The assistant’s s

“Did you have it in a size two?” Sash asks jovially

“We make adjustments to every dress to ensure that they fit”, the assistant says evenly

“Perfect”, Sash says

“Which one was it that you wanted again?”

Sash flops into the large leather armchair usually reserved for well-heeledready

“Oh I don’t care”, Sash says with a big smile and a dismissive wave of her hand “You choose”

She does the sah street until she’s spent nearly fifty thousand dollars and is literally weighed doith ars Dresses she hasn’t even bothered to try on Jewelry she doesn’t know if she likes Scarves, belts , accessories and shoes for occasions that ht never roll around It’s more money than Sash has earned in her short life so far, and perhaps more than she’ll ever earn in a lifetime, but it’s less than a dent in Dante’s finances In the time she’s taken to spend it, Dante’s earned double the amount back Sash feels like she deserves it too She’s always been prudent with her cash, and never asked anyone for anything before Even when she went to Dante in the first place, it was to ask for work and not a handout, so spending it so frivolously now feels like freedolasses for leaving her in the lurch, a ten thousand dollar evening dress forher move back home, a four thousand pound pair of hand made, jewel encrusted shoes, because, fuck you, Dante, that’s why He owes her this for the way that he’s behaved, for the fact he’s been away for over a week and still not returned herher guard, showing she was still in love with hiht in her face

She’d often see wo down the high street with ars on the way back froht she’d ever be one of them Sometimes those women would have an arents, only to carry their bags As Sashherself in the lass of the shop s she passes, she wonders whether that should be so, of course, as well A tiny little chihuahua with styled hair and diamond encrusted collar It would fit perfectly in her Louis Vuitton handbag Bodyguards, pet accessories, what else could she buy with Dante’s billions? She kneould get boring after a while, that instead of his credit card she’d prefer the real thing a billion times over, but until he felt he could trust her, and came back home from California, this would have to act as a compromise

The hotel receptionist greets her enthusiastically He trips over his words to compliment her, keen, in a purely professional sense to see what his new best custo Sash humors him, happy to be the center of attention for a while, before passing the bags to a bell-boy andher ith him into the elevator

Her suite is palatial Two bedrooive one of the space, a vast bathroom with sauna and walk in shower room, and views over Manhattan from the landscaped terrace that Donald Trump would kill for