What better than a ~20 yo prostitute-escort-younger girlfriend to embody that strange mixture? Extreme control of the body and expert knowledge of social dynamics neighbour a fundamental helplessness set in some strange belief that she cannot make it on her own. And that type of femme fatale is a pretty strange character when you think about it: she is a virtuoso at reading and playing the tensions and affinities around her. She subjugates and controls men (slaves to their desires, or just buying a service, and sometimes the service includes the lie she serves). Despite these masterful abilities, she only uses them to get protection. Alex, the MC, is always helpless, looking for another client to get her out of what she got into, which is nothing else but herself.

That mental cocktail is so familiar that it is probably cultural, part of some cooked under pressure feminine culture that created these elaborate strategies to be given what you want without having to ask for it, as if there would be no point in asking and not even the conception to get it directly.

She slips up and needs to repair the damage over a few days or else, so she sets up to use any available means in this rich people's little world. Of course she slips more and more, catches herself and makes up for it and the story unfolds on an edge like a long, uncomfortable fall with no impact, despite the copious amount of drugs used to numb the fear and the coming pain.