Random Walk by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

13

MARK STOOD IN the doorway. A chambermaid, her back to him, was making one of the beds. The skirt of her yellow uniform was tight on her round little ass.

A Day’s Inn outside of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Not his room, not even his floor.

He said, “Miss?”

She straightened up and whirled around. “Oooh,” she said. “You scared me for a minute.”

“Nothing to be afraid of.”

“I just din hear you come in. I’ll be through in a minute, or did you want me to come back?”

A Mexican girl, Indian planes in her broad face. A fine shape to her. Straight glossy black hair, cut in Egyptian simplicity. A dark red full-lipped mouth.

He said, “I wouldn’t want you to take this the wrong way.” She looked wary. “I’ll give you a hundred dollars just to take off your clothes and let me see you.”

“Are you crazy?”

“I mean it,” he said. “A hundred dollars. I won’t touch you, I won’t come near you. I just want to see you.”

“I never did nothing like that,” she said.

“I just want to look at you,” he said. “You’re beautiful, I want to see you.” He took out his wallet, drew out a hundred-dollar bill. “Here,” he said. “Take it, it’s yours.”

She looked at the money, at him, at the money again. She said, “Close the door. Lock it, push the little button.” She took the money from him, folded it, tucked it into a pocket of her uniform. “This is crazy,” she said. “I don’t know why I’m doing this.”

Because it beats scrubbing out toilets for four dollars an hour, he thought. He watched, delighted, as she reached behind her to grapple with buttons and snaps, then shrugged the garment off her shoulders and stepped out of it. Her white bra and panties contrasted sharply with her rich copper skin. She hesitated for just a moment before uncoupling and removing the bra, then looked questioning at him.

“Oh, yes,” he said. “The panties too.”

She grinned. “Why not?” She wriggled out of her panties and tossed them aside, then stood watching him watching her. She said, “You like me, huh?”

“You’re beautiful.”

“Yeah?” She struck a pose, then another. “Playboy magazine,” she said. “Too bad you din bring your camera.” She posed with her knees together, her hands cupped beneath her breasts as if offering them to him. “Ta-dah,” she said, imitating a drum roll, and put one foot up on the bed, turning to display her private parts.

What a little minx she was! Once he’d given her an excuse to get out of her clothes she was as eager for the game as he was. She gave him good long looks at her firm young flesh from every angle, and before it could occur to her that the show had gone on long enough, he got a second bill from his wallet.

“I’ll give you another hundred dollars for a kiss.”

He could have had the kiss for nothing, and more along with it. She was so hot from the posing that he hadn’t had to offer her more money.

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