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“I thought it’d be one of the places where they were holding women, but it wasn’t It was just a warehouse filled with street hookers, and I realized then that he was shaking the,” Mistress Strokes continues “I talked to the of leaving the life; she had a son, you see? She wanted to be better Anyway, she toldto Python, because the owner had a reputation between the street hookers: if you really wanted to straighten up your act, Austin would help you without asking for anything in return”

“And that hen she showed up in here Nervous and shaking, clutching a backpack to her chest,” Austin laughs, and I finally realize how é

Mistress Strokes sighs

“I’et persecuted, Destiny,” she tells me and I nod I’m the same way Remember? How I said I could have sex with anyone I wanted to? And fuck off if they didn’t like it?

Well, while I was going out spreading er to free women

We could all be more like her

“With the infors we started saving as oes on She stops and pauses “We still are, and Lester wants to stop us at all costs He’s not going to give up”

“Well neither are we, goddalance with Strokes “We can’t let hi takes, we’ll bring that motherfucker down”

“And how are we going to do that…?” Mistress Strokes asks hi at me

I see where she’s going and I chiot the entire NYPD at his fingertips,” I tell hi it see, but what I’ inside my belly

Is it really a good idea to go to ith Lester when I’ Austin’s baby?

“All I knoe’re looking at Python right here,” Austin grins gesturing to the three of us, the confidence in hi him look as handsome as a movie star, “and Python is where dreams come true, ladies”

He gets up and looks at us before finishing “Let’scome true as well”

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