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Steve is grateful that at least he feels loved. Because if you don’t feel loved, it’s difficult to feel anything at all.
“What was that thing Debbie used to say?” Amy asks. “A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met yet?”
“Almost a million dollars,” says Rosie. “And Jeff and I did a job a while ago for a man we really shouldn’t have,” says Amy. “A money-smuggler called François Loubet.” “Ah,” says Rosie. “Nice guy? Single?”
But she was bored, and when you’re bored it’s important to make things happen.
But people die or, worse, get married,
Rosie only really has one rule in life: if you see a door, walk through it.
And they are hardly inconspicuous, as she had pointed out to Rosie. Rosie accepted this; she was, for instance, wearing a tiara. “Always dress to impress—it doesn’t matter where you are.”
“That’s very kind of you, Barbara,” says Steve, as Barb kisses him on both cheeks. “It’s not Barbara,” says Barb. “I see,” says Steve. “So where does ‘Barb’ come from?” “It’s a nickname,” says Rosie. “For thirty years she controlled the barbiturates trade across the entire East Coast.”
“BMW Full of Bullet Holes is a good name for a b—”
Rosie is not irresistible to people because she is famous. She is famous because she is irresistible to people.
But I can confirm that Trouble is based, in very large part, on my constant writing companion, Liesl Von Cat. Liesl actually managed to delete an entire paragraph of the story for the first time ever this year. Can’t wait to see what she has in store next time.
