Preface
Betrayal at Pentagon City
Stifling a yawn, Monica Lewinsky pulled on black leggings and
a gray T-shirt, then made for the door, negotiating her way around
the half-filled packing boxes that littered her ground-floor apartment
in the Watergate Building in downtown Washington. Once outside,
she climbed into her brother's Jeep Cherokee and nursed it through
the morning traffic for the fifteen-minute journey to her new
gym on fashionable Connecticut Avenue.
Conscious, as ever, of her weight, she wanted to get in shape
for her new job, working in the Public Relations Division of Revlon,
the cosmetics company, in New York. Yet while it was an exciting
and enticing prospect, her anticipation of this new life was tinged
with regret. She was leaving the person she loved, the one man
who had occupied her every waking moment and invaded her restless
nights for the last two years--the President of the United States.
There was another and more pressing worry. As she took part in
the morning aerobics class, her mind was occupied with more than
a sentimental reverie for the man she had loved and now seemed
destined to lose. She had been ordered to make a sworn statement
in a civil case brought by Paula Jones, a cler ... read full excerpt from: Monica's Story ebook
