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Only deep affection for Mavis prevented Eve fro “Apparently”
“I’ll get your drinks Jess, he brought the brew”
Mary hulked off, leaving Eve and Peabody in a glass-walled control booth that curved in a se her heart and lungs out With a grin, Eve lass, the better to see
Mavis had scooped up her hair so that it spewed in a purple fountain out of aup the center of her bare breasts The rest of thekaleidoscope that started at the midriff and ended barely south of the crotch She danced to the beat on a fashionable pair of slides that left the feet bare and propped them onto four-inch stilts
Eve had no doubt that Mavis’s lover had designed the costulowing like a sunbea jurizzly
“What a pair,” she murmured and hooked her thumbs in the back pockets of her battered jeans She turned her head to speak to Peabody, but noted her companion’s attention was riveted to the left, and the look on Peabody’s face, Eve noted with soed to combine shock, admiration, and lust
Following Peabody’s distracted gaze, Eve had her first view of Jess Barrow He was beautiful A painting inmane of hair the color of polished oak His eyes were nearly silver, thickly lashed, intensely focused, as he worked the controls of an elaborate console His complexion was flawless, tanned to bronze, set off by rounded cheekbones and a strong chin His mouth was full and firm, and his hands, as they flew over the controls, were as finely sculptured as marble
“Roll up your tongue, Peabody,” Eve suggested, “before you step on it”
“God Holy God He’s better i
n person Don’t you just want to bite him?”
“Not particularly, but you go ahead”
Catching herself, Peabody flushed to the roots of her hair She shifted on her sturdy legs This was, she reminded herself, her superior “I admire his talent”
“Peabody, you’re adood one, so I can’t hold it against you”
“I wish he would,” sheMary stoets this brew from his family down South It’s fine”
Since it was also unmarked and unlabeled, Eve prepared to sacrifice a few layers of sto She was pleasantly surprised when the liquid slid mellowly down her throat “It is fine Thanks”