Obsession by Jackie Collins

Author:Jackie Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Star Books

chapter 12

MADISON HAD THE CAB take her to a late-night car-rental place, and now she sat behind the wheel of a green Ford Galaxy driving toward Salli’s house in Pacific Palisades. No more depending on other people to get around this town.

Her thoughts were full of Salli, as she tried to dredge up every detail of their lunch together. She remembered walking into Salli’s luxurious house— her sense of how unlike New York city living it was with its big, high-ceilinged rooms leading out to lavish gardens, and an enormous swimming pool. The sun was shining and music was playing in the background. It was the radio, because every so often a male disk jockey would announce his last three choices. She remembered the dogs, yappy little things racing all over the place.

“They’re my babies,” Salli had said, scooping them up in her arms. And then later Salli had confided that she couldn’t have kids—something to do with an abortion that had taken place when she was fifteen. “I was dirt poor,” she’d said with a rueful laugh. “So I guess I got me the town butcher.”

“Is that off the record, or can I use it?” Madison had asked, playing fair because she didn’t want to take advantage of Salli’s almost naive openness.

“Go ahead—print the truth for once,” Salli had answered boldly. “I’m sick of all the lies.” And then she’d really started talking.

Good journalist that she was, Madison had made shorthand notes in her head as Salli rambled on— even though her mini-tape machine was recording every word, because nowadays the lawyers wouldn’t allow the magazine to print an interview unless there was tape to back it up.

Sitting beside the pool, chewing on carrot sticks, because she was on a constant diet, Salli began peeling back the layers of her life.

* * *

Small-town girl Salli got pregnant, had an abortion, won a local beauty contest at the age of fifteen, fought with her widowed father, dropped out of school and took the bus to Hollywood with exactly one hundred and three dollars in her cracked, white patent-leather purse. She had brown frizzy hair, slightly buck teeth and quite a bit of puppy fat. But she was still pretty enough to make heads turn.

She faked her ID and immediately got a job as a waitress in a strip joint out by LAX airport, where she was so impressed by most of the strippers’ attributes that she decided she’d better do something about her own modest 34B’s. With that goal in mind she began saving her money for just such an event.

While she was waiting, a cabdriver boyfriend took a nude Polaroid of her and sent it in to Playboy. Eight weeks later they rejected her as too skinny. This infuriated Salli, who immediately became determined that one day she’d be on the magazine’s cover.

New tits became more important than ever. She found herself an agent and started doing extra work. Naturally, the agent, an older man with grown kids, fell in lust with her.

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