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Twice a day, between the hours of ten and four, tours were guided through the station Louise had taken one herself as a child, had gaith the best of the smile, decided then and there on her career
She waved to the guard at the front entrance, detoured to the east end, which was the shortest route to Second At the side door for employees, she passed her pal open, she winced at the heavy sound of drued her mind
Was one sneaky sh the cold and daood, expensive raincoat would keep her dry enough, and she’d been stuck in Editing with Nadine for more than an hour
Hunching her shoulders, she bolted outside
The wind kicked so that she broke her stride just long enough to secure the coat at the waist Her shoes were soaked before she reached the botto down at them, she swore under her breath
“Well, shit”
They were the last words she spoke
Aonce to
clear the rain fro slash, glint wetly in the rain then slice viciously across her throat
The killer studied her for only a moment, watched the blood fountain, the body collapse like a puppet cut froer, then a quick, jittering fear The gored knife hurried back into a deep pocket before the darkly clad figure ran off into the shadows
“I think I could live like this” After a meal of rare Montana beef accented with lobsters harvested frone, Mavis lounged in the lush indoor lagoon off the solarium She yawned, blissfully naked and just a little drunk “You are living like this”
“Sort of” Not quite as free-spirited as Mavis, Eve wore a snug one-piece tank suit She’d cozied herself on a s She hadn’t allowed herself to relax to this extent in too long to remember “I don’t really have a lot of time for this part of it”
“Make tiain, perfect round breasts glearaave a sniff “Christ, this is the real thing Do you knohat you’ve got here, Dallas?”
“Indoor swi?”
“What you’ve got,” Mavis began as she frog kicked her way over to the float that held her glass, “is a grade one fantasy The kind you can’t get frone “You’re not going to get all weirded out and blow it, are you?”