Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard [Leonard, Elmore]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-03-23T08:43:53.771000+00:00

“Honey, there’s no limit to this town. Why do you think all the conventioneers, the Shriners, come here and go crazy? Why do you think we’re here?”

Heidi took her time now. “They allow you to rob banks?”

“That’s something we’ll have to find out pretty soon,” Jack said. “We’re getting low.”

“What’ll you do, ask permission? Teddy, can I knock over one of your banks?”

“We pick one out of town. Pull it off—how do they know it’s us?”

The bell rang. Heidi looked out the window going to the door and saw the La Salle at the curb. It was the bodyguard at the door. He winked at her, said, “How you today?” with an accent and walked past her to the kitchen.

“Can I help you?”

“Jack is here?”

“Not right now.”

He walked past her in his black overcoat, a stick pin in his tie, going the other way now, down the hall to look in the bedrooms, the bath and the screened porch and came back saying, “You right. I don’t see him.” He stepped to the door, still open, and waved for his boss to come in. Now he turned to her with pleasure in his eyes. “I’m Lou Tessa,” the accent there. He was shaved and smelled good, but would show a beard no matter how many times he shaved and she wondered if you could feel it.

He said, “You get your phone?”

“The next day.”

“What if I give you a call?”

She liked dark guys and raised the back of her hand to brush her fingers along his jaw. His skin felt smooth. “When?” He said, “Sometime,” and stepped aside for Teddy Ritz, telling him,

“They got the phone.”

Heidi said, “Jack sure appreciates your help. He said we’d be waiting forever without it.”

Teddy glanced at Lou Tessa and the bodyguard walked out closing the door.

“His old man’s Oris Belmont,” Teddy said, “and Jack can’t get service when he wants it?”

“He’s sort of bashful,” Heidi said. “But the big problem, he and his daddy don’t get along too well.”

Teddy said, “On account of Bashful Jack robbing banks or selling whiskey?”

Heidi laughed out loud. “Well, you sure learned about us in a hurry.”

“About Jack. Nobody knows of any Heidi Belmont. You two aren’t married, are you?”

“We talk about it once in a while. No, I’m still Heidi Winston.”

“You have any kind of talent? You strip?”

She could tell him she was an experienced madam, as young as she was, but held off about that or screwing commercially, believing, from the way his eyes kept falling into the scoop neck of her peasant blouse, she could do a lot better than minding whores.

“I can work as a hostess in some high-class joint,” Heidi said, “keep the gentlemen coming back.”

“Yeah? How you do that?”

“I know how to treat a gentleman.”

“Show ’em your goodies?”

“In a tasteful way. I bend over the table, he’s hoping my titties fall in his crawfish bisque.”

Teddy was breathing Juicy Fruit on her, smiling now.

“I see that could happen.”

“I’m looking for a high-class place that suits my personality, not one that caters to a bunch of louts.

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