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When Feeney left, Eve shifted to her terminal She hadn’t wanted to check in front of Mavis, and preferred, in this case, using her office unit The question was simple

Eve entered the name and address of her apartment complex Asked: Owner?

And so the ansas simple: Roarke

Lola Starr’s license for sex was only three hteenth birthday, the earliest possible date She liked to tell her friends she’d been an amateur until then

It was the saed her name fro for Lola

She had a cute, pixie face She’d nagged and begged and wept until her parents had agreed to buy her a more pointed chin and a tip-tilted nose for her sixteenth birthday

Lola had wanted to look like a sexy elf and thought she’d succeeded Her hair was coal black, cut in short, sassy spikes Her skin was h reen, which she thought would suit her ih to have been born with a lush little body that needed no more than basic maintenance

She’d wanted to be a licensed coht have dreamed of careers in law or finance, studied their way into medicine or industry But Lola had always known she was born for sex

And why notfrom what you did best?

She wanted to be rich and desired and pampered The desire part she found easy Men, particularly olderto pay well for someone with Lola’s attributes But the expenses of her profession were ent than she’d anticipated when she’d dreamed away in her pretty room in Toledo

The licensing fees, the mandatory health exams, the rent, and sin tax all ate into profits Once she’d finished paying for her training, she’d only had enough left to afford a ses of Prostitute Walk

Still, it was better than working the streets as s

One day she’d live in a penthouse and take only the cream of clients She’d be wined and dined in the best restaurants, jetted to exotic places to entertain royalty and wealth

She was good enough, and she didn’t intend to stay at the botto

The tips helped A professional wasn’t supposed to accept cash or credit bonuses Not technically But everyone did She was still girl enough to prefer the pretty little gifts soiously and dreamed of her penthouse