Money Trouble by William J. Reynolds

Author:William J. Reynolds [Reynolds, William J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brash Books
Published: 2021-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

Maureen waited at the end of the short corridor outside the den. Irish Tim must have somehow signaled her that I was leaving. I followed her through the dining room and on into the living room, admiring the ebb and flow of her hips under the shiny dress, the shock of red, red hair against her ivory back. She did not have the pink, slightly mottled skin of some redheads … yet I didn’t doubt for an instant that the color of her hair was the work of Mother Nature, not Lady Clairol.

At the door, Maureen stopped, turned, and put a slim hand on my arm. It was warm—her hand; my arm felt like ice beneath it.

Her eyes were impossibly green, her lips impossibly pink. They parted. “Mr. Nebraska … would you do something for me?”

She was probably accustomed to men answering that question with, “Anything.” I managed, “If I can.”

She left me, left the room, and was gone a full minute, perhaps longer.

If my life were a detective novel, she’d’ve returned as naked as the day she was born, her flaming hair down around her milky shoulders.

In the event, when she returned she was fully dressed as before. But now she carried something, a small object, in both hands. She crossed the room, smiling, and held it out to me.

It was a book. It was my book. It was The Book.

She said, “Will you autograph your novel for me?”

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