“What's the matter?” Sonja asked.
“Work,” Kristen said as she yanked on a pair of panties. “I'm sorry, but I have to go. Like, right now.”
“Work? FBI work?” Sonja asked, sounding curious.
Kristen winced. “I can't tell you. And no, I'm not doing this just to get out of here,” Kristen said, grabbing the key to the handcuffs.
“It's your room, it's not the smartest thing for you to do anyway,” Sonja laughed as Kristen undid the cuffs.
“I'm sorry. I really am,” Kristen said, not even glancing at Sonja as she got back off the bed and began looking for the rest of her clothes. “Maybe we can meet again next time I'm in LA.”
“You're coming back?”
“I don't know when, but I have unfinished business here,” Kristen said as she pulled on a pair of slacks.
Kristen was out the room and pounding on Tammin's door across the hall before Rhona even got off the bed. Before getting dressed, she crossed the room and opened up the designer leather wallet and smiled at her Mitra, Rhona driver's license right there in the front, complete with a picture that was only a year old. Oh, how close Kristen Bell had gotten.
Well, it was just too bad, Rhona mused as she looked around for her own clothes. She would've enjoyed fucking Kristen some more. She also would have enjoyed killing the little bitch, but perhaps another time. For now, she had to figure out what had Kristen racing to return to LA. Perhaps she'd given Beverley a quick call...
After she got dressed.
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CODA:
The wedding goes better than expected. Dichen and Amy, while hungover, look radiant in their gowns, and the whole party is fantastic. JoAnna and Jason have to leave early, however, so that they can both go to work the next morning. That’s fine with JoAnna, who despite a lingering desire to get with her new friend, Jessica Chastain, knows things are going on up north that she wants to be closer for. They’re not home two hours before Ashley Benson breaks into the nightly TV for word that indeed, seven members of the San Fran Eight have escaped.
Tammin has to leave quickly, too, but that’s okay. Victoria has nothing left in Los Angeles except her job, and she could be a stripper in San Francisco just as easily as she could in LA. She goes to the Spectacular, gets her things, and quits before Charisma can even ask her if she can work that night. She never hears from Charisma, Adrianne, or Emmanuelle again. Victoria might never again take her clothes off for money, but she’ll never forget her time working at the club - it’s where she learned her true sexual identity, and where she met the woman she fell in love with. She goes right from the Spectacular to the bus station, and is riding north when news of the breakout hits.
Tammin, Beverley, and Kristen all meet at the LA FBI office, and sure enough get on a helicopter that flies them north. Only Beverley knows how close they came to solving the case of Kristen’s life. Kristen’s mind is on how she failed in Los Angeles. Tammin’s mind is on her new love, Victoria. Beverley spends the flight fantasizing about throwing Tammin out of the chopper. None of them know that as they approach San Francisco, they fly right over the hiding place of the women they’ll spend the next several weeks hunting again.
For the next few weeks, life in the Spectacular continues as it always has. Charisma pays the girls out of the money laundered by Rhona. Adrianne and Emmanuelle continue to sleep with each other, and pretty much anyone else. New girls come and go. Charisma sleeps with them all. But then the money goes away. The club falls on hard times, not getting the clientele needed to actually stay afloat. Charisma even resorts to stripping herself, but it’s not enough. Within six months, the club is closed, and sold to a Real Estate company in Nevada, a front for a new bunch of criminals and mobsters. A new manager is brought in, new girls are hired, new money is laundered. Oddly, the name remains the same. Long after the saga of the San Francisco Eight is over, the Spectacular goes on…
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