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you talking about?”
    Chloe looked so scared that Lacey felt sorry for her. She was sorry that she’d called her and pulled her into this mess. She should have figured out a different way. She shouldn’t have involved Chloe. Chloe depended on Lally and men like him for her livelihood. She was terrified of him. She wasn’t a reporter pretending to be a call girl, she really was a call girl, and without her job she had nothing.
    “I’m sorry,” Lacey said. “You’re right. I’m not making any sense.”
    Chloe looked at her, long and hard. She seemed to be thinking over everything Lacey had said. She knew there was more than just a crazy idea here.
    “Lacey, I’m so scared of these men. You haven’t been playing this game as long as I have. You haven’t seen everything that they’re capable of. I know you’re a smart girl. You’re different. If you have some plan to get back at Lally, I believe in it. You’re not crazy. But I’m still terrified of even thinking about trying to hurt these guys. They literally own us, Lacey. They can do anything to us. Benny could call us at any second and tell us to go to the mansion and we’d go. And if those men wanted to kill us and bury us under their million dollar lawn, no one in the world would stop them.”
    “You’re right,” Lacey said. “I didn’t think about all that, Chloe. It’s just, I overheard Lally talking about some things the other morning at the mansion, some things that I might be able to use to get him in trouble, and I just wanted so badly to get back at him for the way he treated us. I wasn’t thinking straight. I don’t even know if what I overheard was enough to get him in trouble.”
    “Well, you better be sure before you try anything stupid,” Chloe said.
    “That’s why I wanted your help.”
    Chloe sighed. She looked at Lacey. There was a troubled look in her eye. She was concerned about something, scared, worried. Lacey could tell she was thinking about saying something but wasn’t sure whether she should or not.
    “If you have something you want to say,” Lacey said, “you can say it, Chloe.”
    Chloe nodded. “Lacey, you’ve been kind to me. You’re a real friend. You’ve done more for me in the short time I’ve known you that almost anyone else. But I need to know who you are?”
    “You know who I am, Chloe.”
    “No I don’t. Not really. You’ve been keeping something from me, Lacey. I know you have. And I’m not angry. I’m sure you have your reasons, but if we’re going to be this close, if we’re going to be everything to each other, I need to be able to trust you completely, and I need to know who you are.”
    Lacey looked at Chloe. She knew she was right. She had a right to know who Lacey really was. They’d been through so much together. They’d been through hell and back. They’d shared experiences that most people couldn’t even imagine and if Lacey was going to enlist her help for the story she had to be up front with her. Chloe would be risking everything if she was going to help. Lacey had an obligation to be honest with her.
    “Well,” Lacey said, “first off, what I told you before, about being a prostitute’s daughter in New Mexico, that much is true.”
    “What about the rest?”
    “The rest, the father in Dallas paying for my house, that’s not true. I don’t have a father. That’s not even my house. It belongs to my employer.”
    “Your employer?”
    “Yes.”
    “Who’s your employer.”
    “Someone who hired me to get information about The Club.”
    “Who?”
    “ Pulse Magazine .”
    The look on Chloe’s face broke Lacey’s heart. She’d never seen a girl look so betrayed in all her life. Chloe’s eyes grew wide with shock. Her lips quivered. She looked just as she had when Lally had been beating her at the mansion.
    “You lied to me,” Chloe said.
    “I know,” Lacey said. Her voice sounded weak. She knew she’d hurt Chloe. She knew that whatever she said now wouldn’t