Baby, I'm Yours

Author:Susan Andersen [Andersen, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780380795116
Amazon: 0380795116
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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Jimmy Chains had fled the lynch mob in the ladies’ room by bulling his way past the angry skirts and escaping through the kitchen. His first inclination, when he heard the bus pull out of the lot out front, was to jump in his rental car and follow it. But Kay-lee had said he was smart, and he’d noticed over the years that smart people usually stopped and thought about the stuff they did instead of just jumping right in and doing it.

So he tried that. He stopped and thought about it. And it occurred to him that sooner or later someone would probably take notice if his car was forever trailing along in the bus’s wake.

But how else was he supposed to know where to hook up with Kaylee again if he couldn’t follow the bus? He supposed he could always call the boss to get his opinion, but at the moment that seemed like a piss-poor idea.

He stopped and thought about it some more. Then he walked around to the front of the cafe and let himself in the front door.

It was quiet after the rush, and he chose to make his inquiry from one of the teenagers busing the tables. „Hey,“ he said, walking up to a young woman with a long brown ponytail. She unloaded the industrial-grade crockery from the table to her wheeled cart, wiped her hands on the grubby white apron tied over her jeans, and looked up at him.

„I’m, uh, not sure how I missed connecting up here with my sister like I was s’posta, but somehow I did,“ he improvised. „I wonder if you could tell me where the bus’ll stop next.“

„I’m not sure about all the stops,“ she replied, leaning forward to wipe down the table, „but I know dinner’s at the Diamondback in Laramie.“

„Thanks, kid. Appreciate it. Here.“ He thrust out a twenty. „Buy yourself somethin’ nice.“

„Wow.“ The teenager stared down at the bill in her hand. Then she took her eyes off her work for the first time to grin up at him. „Thanks, mister.“

He felt pretty damn good. Kaylee was right; he was smart. And being an intelligent kinda guy, he decided that now might be a good time to get out of town. He’d just as soon not be around when Bobby was discovered in the refrigerator shed. He left the cafe and walked straight to his rental car. Having already checked out of the motel, he climbed in and started it up. Then he sat for a moment, waiting for the air conditioner to catch up with the built-up heat.

When the temperature had reached a tolerable level, he put the car in gear and cruised out of the lot. He drove with caution up the main highway to the interstate.

Then he put the pedal to the metal and pointed the hood ornament toward Laramie.

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