" For the first time in my life I didn't feel as if I were poor. I made as much as I could because I was afraid somehow I might lose it. But while I was doing so good old shy Tonya was being replaced by her new persona"

"What do you mean?"

"You think I gave those men my real name? I told them my name was Mercedes." She laughed derisively. "I told them I was like the car, black, sleek and one hell of a ride. Mercedes was the one calling the shots, and Tonya was about to pay the price. I planned on calling my father the...