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"That's right But I'reater need for money than for sex"

She nodded slowly "With Spinner," she said, "I was trying to arrange so I don't have s of that sort, but just to buy time I could probably raise some money if I had a little time I nored the question "Here's the probleame, you know that It was temporary, it hatout inner anxieties and hostilities I don't knohat the fuck he's talking about, and I'm not sure he does either I' jet-setter in a teensy way, but I kno the ga for the rest of your life"

"That's the usual pattern, all right"

"I don't want that pattern I want toBut it's hard to work out the mechanics of it"

"Because I could always have copies of the pictures"

"You could have copies You could also just hold the inforh to wreck uarantee that one payht I'd need to have a hook stuck in you so that you wouldn't even think about keeping any pictures Or about coreed "You were trying to work it that ith Spinner?"

"That's right Neither of us could come up with an idea that the other liked, and in the e" She licked her lip "It was rather interesting sex His perceptions of otattractive wooddess, and at the sas about me, so I became a special person for him I didn't find him attractive And I didn't like him, I didn't like his manner and I hated the hold he had over ether He was surprisingly inventive I didn't like having to do things with hi the

"I could tell you soht turn you on, listening"

"I don't think so"

"You don't like me much, do you?"

"Not too much, no I can't really afford to like you, can I?"

She drank soain "You wouldn't be the first cop I ever took to bed," she said "When you're in the game, that's a part of it I don't think I ever met a cop asn't worried about his cock That it was too s it I suppose that's part of carrying a gun and a nightstick and all the rest of it, don't you think?"

"Could be"

"Personally, I always found cops to be built the sa off the subject, Mrs Ethridge"

"Bev"

"I think we ought to talk about et off the hook and I can let go of the fishing rod"

"Howabout?"

"Fifty thousand dollars"

I don't knohat sort of figure she was expecting I don't know if she and Spinner had talked price while they rolled around on expensive sheets She pursed her lips and gave a silent whistle, indicating that the sue sum indeed

She said, "You have expensive ideas"

"You pay it once and it's over"

"Back on Square A How do I know that?"

"Because when you pay over thea few years ago I could go to jail for it for a long ti all the details I'll give it to you when you pay the fifty thou, along with the stuff Spinner has on you That locks "

"It wasn't just so like police corruption"

"No, it wasn't"

"You

She took her tiarette, tapped its end on a well-ht it for her I reht it for herself

Finally she said, "Itmy neck in a noose You wouldn't have to worry abouton the rope"

She nodded "There's only one problem"

"The money?"

"That's the problem Couldn't er the price a little?"

"I don't think so"