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Murphy walked closer and let the smoke waft over the chairman

“It’s the little things,” he said with a grin, “that makes the Corporation successful”

“The real band was sober,” Cabrillo noted

“But Ho doesn’t know that”

Cabrillo nodded “Listen up Dick Truitt has et three uards I’ll have the couards Ho already hired Don’t slip up and mistake ours for them”

Just then, Cabrillo’s telephone rang He listened then disconnected

“Reduys’ uniforroup

A moment later Julia Huxley walked into the room

“Wow,” Kasim said

Huxley was dressed in a pair of for leather pants that laced up the side and shoo panels of leg from foot to hip Her top was a metal-studded vest that barely covered her ample bosom Around her neck was a strap of leather with a D-shaped hook, and one of her ar tattoo of barbed wire and flower vines Her hair was teased and coated with hair spray in a wild fashion and her makeup was bold and thickly applied Five-inch pulitter on her exposed skin completed the picture

“Slutty enough for you boys?” she asked

“I didn’t know the Magic Shop had such costumes in stock,” Halpert said

Huxley walked over to Halpert and rubbed herself along his side As the lead singer, he, of course, was the one who got the girl

“What do you mean?” she asked “This is from my own collection”

Huxley was lying, of course—but then this entire operation was a façade