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“Oh, like so to report you Unbutton that unifor at you Hoas Paris? Hoas the island? Hoas the resort? Did he fuck your brains out everywhere?”

“Beautiful, wonderful, interesting, and yeah, he did How’s Leonardo?”

Mavis’s eyes went dreamy She smiled and poked a silver-tipped nail onto the ht it would be He designed this costume for me”

Eve studied the thin silver straps that almost covered Mavis’s tidy apple breasts “Is that what you call it?”

“I’ve got this new nued the fizz water when it plopped through the slot “I don’t knohere to start There’s this guy, thisa disc, Eve—full treatreat, Jess Barrow He was blazing a couple years back with his own stuff Maybe you heard of him”

“No” Eve knew that, for a woe portion of her life, Mavis rely naive about certainhim?”

“It’s not like that” Mavis’s lipsfee, sure That’s the way it works; and if we hit, he takes sixty percent for the first three years After that we renegotiate”

“I’ve heard of him,” Peabody commented She’d unfastened her collar button—a tribute to her fondness for Mavis “He had a couple of o, and he was hooked up with Cassandra” At Eve’s arched brow, she shrugged “The singer, you know”

“You a music lover, Peabody? You never fail to amaze me”

“I like to listen to tunes,” Peabody muttered into her bubbly water “Like anyone”

“Well, the Cassandra connection’s du for a new vocalist And that’s me”

Eve wondered what else hefor “What does Leonardo think?”

“He thinks it’s ot to come to the studio, Eve, catch us in action Jess is a certified genius”

She intended to catch them in action The list of people Eve loved was very short And Mavis was on it

She waited until she was back in the car with Peabody, heading to Cop Central “Run a make on Jess Barrow, Peabody”