The Intro:

Helena’s life had been through major turmoil. Everything she thought about herself was challenged in the past few years. Having suffered one personal disaster after another, she was feeling a personal high at this point in her life. She threw herself into her work. Understanding that money could not buy happiness or love, she kept her day to day lifestyle fairly understated. Considering she once wore only designer clothes she now took on modest attire. Yes, she still would shop at designer boutiques but on most days you were more likely to find her in Jacquelyn Smith than D&G. She was determined that money would not make her or defined her. Money would not define who she was, who she loved or control her existence as it had in the past. It might make a nice compliment but it would not be defining.

After taking the coffee house/disco SheBar from Dawn Dembo, and in one quick maneuver also stealing her lover Cindy. She renamed it The Shark Bar and converted it into an upscale contemporary dinner bar hot spot. She hired one of the top young chefs to bring her dream forward. It was quickly regarded one of the hot restaurants and late night spots for young straight, bisexual and gay clientele to mingle and cruise. Helena herself, frequently took personal advantage of this mixed clientele. She avoided any commitment to anything but her restaurants, her children and her friends. After the relationship disasters of the last few years, she reconciled herself to casual dating and even better, casual sex. She could now understand Shane’s philosophy. Relationships were too complex and heart breaking. Life was too short to be tied down. Love and monogamy were myths. Sex was to be enjoyed fully with no expectations or demands the morning after. Commitment was an absolute and most definite no no.

She left many women heart broken in her wake but she refused to let them believe that there would ever be anything more that a night of passion and perhaps a nice breakfast in the morning. She did have an occasional “friend with benefits” but if there was any attempt to push for anything more she would abruptly break things off. Yes, Helena Peabody was now WeHo’s most ineligible bachelorette. Even straight women were curious about what a night with the billionaire heiress would be like. Helena had learned though her experiences, especially from that most regretful and heartbreaking experience with Dylan Moreland, that curious straight girls were totally toxic for her. In essence, they were not even worth the fuck.