Belle (Doxy Parcel) by Nicole Ryan Read Free Book Online

Belle sat on the edge of the hard settee, chatting with Kayla, the receptionist for Doxy Parcel as she waited to be seen.
    “You can’t be serious! I would have left immediately.” Kayla gasped quietly ducking her head down as if they weren’t the only two people on the entire floor.
    “Oh no honey, I love the weird ones, they really melt my butter.” She said with a Marilyn face, and then winked.
    Kayla turned pink as Lenora’s door swung open and a girl with long blonde hair walked out; her eyes were wide, and Belle couldn’t tell if that was just her natural pallor, or if she was white as s ghost.  When the girl was gone from the waiting room, Belle stood, adjusting her purse strap on her shoulder.
    “She was cute huh?” Belle asked, and Kayla nodded enthusiastically.
    “Her name is Alice, she was interviewed today. I think she will do great here if Lenora hires her, she is awfully quiet though.” Kayla pursed her lips, she loved to gossip with the girls about their adventures, but confessed often that she wasn’t interested in the line of work.
    “I’d like to meet her.” Belle winked with a smooth smile.
    “B etween you and me…” Kayla lowered her voice even more, “I heard Lenora and Raymond speaking earlier this week, they’re thinking of offering doubles for the girls who would be willing to do so. She wants to chat with you about it today.”
    “I have been telling her for over a year that she should consider that as a business move.” Belle tossed over her shoulder as she strolled into Lenora’s office, closing the door soundly and plopping down into one of the chairs in front of her desk.
    “Well, what’s the diagnosis?” She asked as she pulled a cigarette from Lenora’s box on her desk, and crossed her legs.
    “You’re clean.” Lenora said without enthusiasm as she rounded the corner of her desk.
    “Good to know. ” Belle said. “What’s the matter?” Lenora was standing at the window now, looking down gravely.
    “I just interviewed a girl, that might change what we do here.” Lenora said, almost to herself as she looked down into the street below her office.
    “ Word on the grapevine is you’re thinking of starting doubles?” Belle said as she took a deep pull on the fancy vanilla flavored cigarette.
    “It’s in the works. ” Lenora seemed to snap back into reality and turned from the window, straightening her hair, “But I have something else for you, it’s short notice, but you’re the girl for the job, and he liked your photo the best.” Lenora said, sliding an envelope to Belle.
    “Upfront payment?” Belle pressed her brows together, feeling the weight of the money in her hands and tossed the envelope back at Lenora, “What is it?” She demanded.
    “Nothing too weird .” Lenora said quickly as she sat in her chair and folded her hands together.
    “You never p ay up front unless it is too weird . Spill it Lenora.” Belle said, crossing her arms over her breasts and leaning back in the chair, the cigarette hanging in her lips.
    “Mr. Bestia has… extravagant tastes.” Lenora said with a devilish grin.
    “Extravagant enough tastes to shell out more than seven grand?” Belle asked.
    Lenora ’s sticky red lips pulled into a sly smile, she loved Belle’s spunk, and she loved that nothing could escape Belle’s notice. Belle had grown up in a wealthy home, with three sisters and no mother. She’d been a promising cellist, had straight A’s in school, and was named Prom Queen her junior and senior year. When Belle was in her first year of college, and their father had lost everything on the stock market, he had traded Belle’s virginity to the highest bidder, one of his sleazy business partners at a whopping hundred grand. Belle had endured the night dutifully, and after the bastard made her deliver the money to her father, she split and never looked back. She lived with her boyfriend for a couple of years, waitressing and then stripping before she