Cold Shoulder by Tim Rangnow

Author:Tim Rangnow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Tim Rangnow
Published: 2021-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

KATIE SLIPPED THROUGH the door at the end of the half hour. She had peeled off her winter clothing first, exposing a clingy outfit that might have been comfortable during the long, warm summers on Polaris, but had to be torture in winter. The temperature inside the brothel was slightly warmer than in the bar, but he wouldn’t have wanted to be out of his heavy sweater and underlayers for more than a few minutes. Especially without the vigorous activity that kept most men warm inside the house.

Kole remained in the chair for half a minute after she left, then began a quick search of the room. He didn’t have anything particular in mind, and his search was driven more by curiosity than anything else. The young woman had been so intent on shielding what she was slipping into her lumpy bag several times that he couldn’t help but wonder what she might have been able to squirrel away in her time at the brothel.

By the time the door opened again, he was back in his original position with a look of boredom on his face. “Well?” he asked.

She checked the hall in both directions before closing the door, and then repeated her cautious move of putting an ear against it for several seconds. “Madame Violet is quite pleased that you want to stay the night. That dried-up old prune acts like I can’t pull my weight around here without her forcing men on me, but I showed her.”

Kole started to point out that she wasn’t actually earning anything from him, and that he wasn’t a regular customer who had been drawn in by her charms, but he satisfied himself with a quiet snort as he eyed her skimpy garments. “And Curtis? Has he come in yet?”

“Eddie saw him go upstairs a few minutes before I went down,” Katie said with a quick smile. “He’s with Heather tonight, just like every other Wednesday night for the last month. At least he’s consistent, which is more than I can say for most men.”

“Where is Heather’s room? How far from the stairs?”

“That’s the best part. Her room is two doors closer to the stairs, on the opposite side of the hall from mine. Even better,” she said with a triumphant smirk as she dug something from between her displayed cleavage, “I have a key.”

Kole looked at the small brass key that was held up between two slim fingers, and then glanced to the doorknob behind her to see a simple twist lock. He didn’t think the lack of a key would have been much of an impediment. “How do you happen to have the key to someone else’s room?”

Katie’s cheeks flushed pink, and she hurriedly turned away to approach her bag laying on the bed. “That doesn’t matter. The point is that I have it, and I’ll let you use it to grab this guy. For another hundred credits.”

He chuckled at the demand. Kole had been wondering when she would start working him for more credits.

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