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Exposing Charlotte Meek.
(closed for AngelaSaxon.)
(closed for AngelaSaxon.)
“Listen, I’m telling you, if this works out, the sky is the limit, you know what I’m saying....”
Max Capra was using his hands free car phone, steering through the afternoon traffic, and silently cursing every other road user.
“Who am I talking about? That girl, the one in the news, Charlotte Meek..”
He leaned on the horn and gave the finger to a motorist hesitating before him.
“I know,” he said, “Faith healer, spirit healer, whatever; there’s a difference? Who cares? Listen, if she’s a fake, I’ll soon find out.”
Max was a publicist, a wheeler-dealer, he knew the score, he knew the people to call. Also, he knew a sure-thing when he saw it, and Charlotte Meek was a sure-thing. He felt it in his water.
“Yeah, yeah, her. Orphan, convent school-girl, eighteen years old and pure as the driven snow. You couldn’t make it up, right?”
He frowned at the scribbled, hand-written directions, took a sharp right and floored the accelerator.
“Is she a looker? Are you kidding? I saw one photograph, just the one, taken last week, school year-book. Listen to me, if tits were brains this girl would be fucking Einstein, you know what I’m saying?”
The route he’d taken had led Max to a peaceful tree-lined street with lots of big, old-fashioned houses set behind security gates and dense hedges.
“Yeah, listen, I gotta go. I think this is it...”
Max pulled into the kerb and looked at the building before him; Victorian, maybe, but what did he know, with gables, lots of windows, grass verges and trees.
A fucking convent school, he thought, that was a first. During his colourful career he’d visited a lot of places, mansions, prisons, hotels, tenements, strip-joints, casinos, airports and brothels, always in search of the next client; the lastest sure-thing. It was the first time he’d ever arranged to collect a client from a convent school.
Max leaned on the horn and waited with the engine running. Inside, he was fired-up, eager to start; green-lights across the board. Also, impatient.
The one thing Max excelled at was interpreting the public need, the multitudes desire for the next big distraction, the hot-story, the latest new celebrity to hit the headlines.
His second greatest skill was for looking after number one, and the easy-going manner he could turn on and off at will was his greatest asset when it came to getting what he wanted and indulging his own particular needs.
He was about to lean on the horn again when he saw a lone female figure with a suitcase cautiously approaching the gates. Leaning across, he opened the door, and waited.