Angela Caro

It would take a great deal of time, money, clout and not a little luck to discover that Angela Caro was actually born Lucy Esposito. Her mother was a two bit hooker with nothing to her name but a heroin addiction. Lucy's mother forced her eldest daughter to start turning tricks herself at the age of fifteen in order to 'pull her weight' but really it was just another way to help feed her addiction. At the age of seventeen Lucy attempted suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathtub of the seedy motel room they were staying in. She was found and her life saved by her half sister Mary. Mary is seven years her junior and it was this turn of events that caused a shift in Lucy's thinking. She couldn't die, she realized, for that would leave her sister unprotected. In several years time, Mary would simply grow to fill Lucy's empty shoes. The cycle of abuse would continue. Lucy realized, laying in the hospital bed with her sister's sleeping head resting in her lap, that she could no longer afford to be a victim. To her mother or to the men her mother sold her to. It was time to make a change.

By the age of nineteen, Angela Caro was working her first real job as a receptionist at a local law firm, gained mainly, indeed solely on the merits that her skirts were short and her shirts thin. By the age of twenty one, she was a receptionist for a high ranking public official. Her qualifications remained the same. So it was that with each passing year she moved quickly and inexorably up the food chain in the corporate world. Sex, lies, scandals, sex, blackmail, bribery, sex, even murder. There was nothing she wouldn't do to get ahead. Now here she is, Vice President in charge of Imports for , Barius and Bledling Inc, one of the largest (and most corrupt) import/export corporations in the country. Yet still, it isn't enough. It will never been enough. There will never be enough money or enough power or enough security or enough blood to wash away the stains left from her youth.

She can at least keep her sister from gaining the same scars she did, though. Mary Esposito lives a quiet life, goes to school and parties with her friends and works a part time job at a local pizzeria though most of her funds are funneled to her through illicit means via her sister. Each knows what the other is up to and loves each other despite the divergent paths their lives have taken, but they rarely meet or speak any more. They are two different people caught up in two different worlds and things can never go back to the way they were again.