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Without surprise, Peabody took out her diary, plugged in the order “Mavis isn’t going to like that”

“She doesn’t have to know, does she”

Eve veered around a glide-cart offering frozen fruit on a stick, then swung onto Tenth where autoain Overhead, an ad blidale’s Preseason sale on winter coats in the men’s, women’s, and unisex department, twenty percent off Such a deal

She spotted the irls and sighed

“Shit There’s Clevis”

“Clevis?”

“This is his turf,” Eve said si zone “I used to do this drag when I was in uniform He’s been around for years Come on, Peabody, let’s spare the little children”

She stepped onto the sidewalk, skirting a pair of ed they’d been standing in the heat arguing forShe shouted once, but the jackhaned, she picked up her pace and intercepted Clevis before he reached the unsuspecting, pink-cheeked girls

“Hey, Clevis”

He blinked at her through the pale lenses of sunscreens His hair was sandy blond and curly around a face as innocent as a cherub’s He was eighty, if he was a day “Dallas Hey, Dallas I haven’t seen you in a big bluewhite teeth as he sized up Peabody “Who’s this?”

“Peabody, this is Clevis Clevis, you aren’t going to bother those little girls, are you?”

“No, shit, uh-uh I wasn’t going to bother the to show ’em, is all”

“You don’t want to do that, Clevis You ought to get inside, out of this heat”

“I like it hot” He wheezed out a chuckle “There they go,” he said with a sigh, as the trio of girls ran laughing across the street “Guess I won’t be able to show ’em today I’ll show you”

“Clevis, don’t—” Then Eve huffed out a breath He’d already pulled his trench coat apart Under it, he was naked but for a bright blue bow tied celebrationally around his withered cock “Very nice, Clevis That’s a good color for you Matches your eyes” She put a companionable hand on his shoulder “Let’s take a ride, okay?”