## JAMES PATTERSON

V: . and the little steps that things progressed?

D: Right.

- V: Well, I went and I wouldn't take off my panties at first. And then he got me to get naked. Then he got me to let him rub me. Then he got me to let him stick his fingers in me. Then he got me to let him go down on me. Then, um-that was pretty much the gist of it, except this one time, where he bent me over the table and put himself in me. Without my permission. And I flipped out. I'm sorry, I didn't ask you, but I don't count that as me having sex with him.... 'Cause I just told you that I never had sex with him. I never did. Even though, I don't know what you'd consider that. But he then-I go, "What are you doing?" He goes, "Oh, I just wanted [redacted] to see this."

	- D: Okay. Let me back you up. When you were completely naked, the same things happened? You went in, you massaged him?

	- V: Sometimes I didn't even do that. Sometimes he just asked me to take off my clothes and-he'd have to do work, he'd be sitting at his desk or something, and I'd just be naked there, watching television or reading a book, but I'd be naked. Or, um, sometimes he wanted to just watch TV or read, and he'd lay in his bed and ask me to take my clothes off and lay with him. And that's it. Not touch him or anything.... Sometimes he'd just invite me over for breakfast, for dinner, or just to use the swimming pool, and I'd get paid for that, too. I'd get paid just to hang out with him. That's it. And if the money wasn't there, I wouldn't have ever been in that house.

		- D: Okay. When he started to touch you―

		- V: I have a question. Before I say anything else. Um, is there a possibility that I'm gonna have to go to court or anything? Like, that's a possibility, right?

			- D: Well, here's the thin going to sit down, w he did to you is a cri V: Would you consider be rape, what he did? D: If he put himself insi V: I didn't say that, or al is about, like, my hip D: That, that is a crime. V: I don't want my fan doesn't know any of t for two years, or how thinks I made phone ing my [unintelligibl know anything.

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done with this interv
decide the best course
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D: He is not this person t
V: Well-

- D: Why do you say you're
before?

- V: Well, I've heard him m
yeah. Of course.

D: You're gonna die? You'
V: All the above! But that
D: Who's he talking to?

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