Kylie was trying to start her life in New York. She came here to become famous from Australia. She gets an interview with Patrick Bateman as a house cleaner. She is sassy, and not easily swayed by the handsome investment banker. He buys her an apartment so she can work for him, and not interfere with his other life. Seeing how she isn't like everyone else in his life, besides Jean, he becomes obsessed with her. She has no desire to belong to him but she became his when she took the job.