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Chapter 3
Tracy was on her proverbial last legs and she knew it. The years have gone by so quickly for Newstime’s host and on-site reporter. She was a red hot celebrity in her time. All the high-end parties were open to her and no club or restaurant worth their salt would ever show Tracy Ray the door, no matter how drunk or rowdy she got. She was somebody in this town, and no one crossed her for fear of a Newstime reprisal in some form or another. After all, a bad review here or an unsavoury expose there was all it took to sink a fine establishment.
But she was reaching the end of the line in this particular career path she has chosen for herself. Tracy knew that the combination of busty and blonde was always a winner if you mixed it with the main ingredient: youth.
Now, Tracy had plenty of busty thanks to Dr Kneward, this genius of a man working out of a small, discreet practice in Paarl and she had plenty of Blonde, thanks to copious bottles of ash blonde bleach and her ultra gay hairstylist Antoine.
She was just rapidly running out of youth! Tracy’s contract was up after her thirty-first birthday and that bitch Kimberley Dewson has already secured the Newstime host position in some clandestine, below the table negotiations. There would be no renewals forthcoming. It was hard to admit but Tracy even felt a begrudging pride about the whole thing, as she taught Dewson all the tricks of the trade. Keep your enemies close and all that.
All of this would not bother Tracy at all if she at least had a follow up gig in place. Her agent warned her on multiple occasions that her partying and loose ways will not help her to cross over to the holy grail of Primetime News Anchorwoman later in life. Now she wished she listened to the killjoy a bit more and didn’t just do coke and suck dick every time her contract negotiations came up. She learned the hard way last month from their Executive Producer Tommy that Dewson could now suck plenty dick herself.
She was going to be replaced, and the very thought nauseated her.
But Tracy Ray was no quitter. All she needed now was to break a big story and she would be back in the big time. The networks will come running and Tracy Ray will be a shit-hot commodity once again. Then she can give the big middle finger to Tommy, The Newstime crew and that little slut Kimberley Dewson.
Now, if Reginald, the evidence clerk at the Cape Town police station could be believed (and after the special favour she gave him earlier this morning he better be telling the truth) such an opportunity has just arrived in the form of Dixie Bannerman. A reported freak of nature and soon-to-be consultant to the police force – at the explicit request of her holiness, the Mayor of Cape Town herself.
He and this Twin Killer story was her ticket to the big time. It was time to grab her cameraman Horris and get some juicy interviews.
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