After twoyears, two-thirds of the value of the equipment would be depreciatedaway.The last call that evening came after school was out, and River wast...here to hear it. Nick had put his phone on speaker, so she could hearthe increasingly angry shouting from the other end of the line. In thebackground they could even hear angry threats being made."Something is going to happen, and I think it will happen tonight,"River said."So soon? Will there be violence?" Marilyn wondered as she held herprecious. Flamboyantly I breathed on my hands and rubbed them, as if to warm them, though in truth I was sweating with excitement. Not attractive, not professional, but entirely unavoidable. She sighed, the tension leaving her, as I placed my hands on her shoulders, began to paw at her knotted flesh, still damp with sweat. Her breathing slowed. I watched her breasts rise and fall slowly under her t-shirt as relaxation swamped her. She trusted me. She was so used to forcing other bodies to submit to her. Her chest was heaving and her was hand clutching her groin, twirling on her sex through her nightgown. She’d gotten up to go to the bathroom. When she was passing Melissa’s bedroom, she heard the sounds of passion coming from behind the closed door. ‘Melissa and her…her fiancée are…are making love!’ Ann thought as she stood outside the door and heard the rapturous sounds. Excitement surged through her. As she listened to the sounds coming from the room, the lovely woman’s excitement rose to. For now, she still had a “summer blockbuster” opening in a few weeks and she needed the publicity machine to keep rolling. After all, she had become the most bankable young starlet in the world and she needed to keep that string alive.Courtney had started her acting career when she was six as the adorable, precocious youngest child on a television sitcom. By 11, she had used her popularity to garner a role in a series of movies based on best-selling books. She had been nominated for two Golden.