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Maria looked atout in the direction that I had indicated I grinned, as she disappeared from view, if she only knehat kind of store I had just sent her off to Appearances could be so deceiving

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Maria stood outside the store embarrassed to even be seen near it Elon couldn't be serious, but the store's name read 'Kinks of the Trade', only the name was spelled out in leather whips It was an Adult store

Elon had to be playing soht?

She looked either way along the sidewalk to see if she would be observed entering the store The coast was clear so she ducked into the store

Oh how she wished that this was a practical joke of some kind!

Why would Elon send her to such a place? As bad as she wanted to believe that this was a practical joke she also knew that Elon wasn't the practical joke kind of person

Her olive skin darkened under the heat of the blush that suffused her face as her wondering eyes fell across the specific itehout the store as she made her way towards the sales counter at the back of the store The ly noriven the nature of the shop

She wore a wry sot closer she said, "Honey if your ive you already in bountiful supply, then you best get yourself anotherwithin a hundred miles of half the stuff in this hell depot!"

Maria did her best to meet the woman's eyes as she stopped at the counter, "I didn't come for any of this…… stuff A man said you could help me"

"And what man would that be honey?" The shop owner asked suspiciously

"Elon Gideon"

The black woot hard with all the friendliness disappearing from them, "And what relation to hiood question Maria answered as honestly as she could think to do so, "I' that added to the heated blush of being in this place that already had her face feeling like it was on fire

The sharpness left the shop owner's eyes who eyed her up all over again, while she shook her head doing it, "I always says to myself, 'Elsie, that Elon Gideon is a h picked himself out a purty princess!"