Shelly's first day of full-time employment on the Thompson & Bridges payroll was May 24, 1996, and her first job was to fly on the firm's private jet to Costa Rica to a truly magnificent 6,000-square foot estate overlooking the protected Culebra Bay and a Four Season's resort. The sleek flying machine landed in what looked to be a field, and Shelly grabbed her canvas bag off the Mark Cross leather seat of the jet and walked down the stairs to behold the rolling hills of the unspoiled pastoral land. Shelly might have been wise to be somewhat frightened or concerned to the fact that she completely alone in a foreign country and was now in a car with a strange Costa Rican man named Abel. However, the luxury of the jet and the outstanding ocean vistas took Shelly's breath away and gave her a false sense of security.

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