The Average of Deviance by K. Simpson

Author:K. Simpson [Simpson, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781934452264
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink
Published: 2009-07-30T05:00:00+00:00

Cassie was waiting for me in the parking lot, perched on the hood of her BMW. She’d taken off the wig, which was a vast improvement. I couldn’t read her expression but started apologizing before I got there, to save time.

“Never mind,” she said. “Come here.”

Uncertain whether it was a good idea, I walked the rest of the way up to her — and barely caught her as she launched herself off the hood into my arms.

“You don’t want to kill me?” I asked, bewildered.

“Eventually,” she said and kissed me again. I finally had to push her off just to breathe.

“What was that for?”

“That little performance back there. It was kind of sexy.”

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked.

She ignored the question. “When you took all that pink stuff off, it was kind of like Superman coming out of the phone booth.”

“Superwoman. And ‘out’ would be the operative word,” I muttered.

“That part’s done. Come here again.”

“We’re at the Family Foundation,” I reminded her.

“And they could use some sex education,” she said, closing in.

Oh, to hell with it. I gave up and got into the spirit of the thing. But before I got all the way in, someone interrupted.

“Very clever,” Monica said.

We broke off, and I pushed Cassie back toward the car, where she might be safer. “You sound surprised,” I said to Monica.

“But very foolish. Don’t think this is done.”

“If you want a war, too, Monica, I’ll pencil you in.”

For a second she might have smiled. Then she disappeared — this time in an impressive pillar of flame.

“She is so Old Testament sometimes,” I said to Cassie. “Forget her. How about lunch?”

Cassie smiled. “I’ve got a better idea.”

As it turned out, she did. We didn’t quite make it back to the office until mid-afternoon.

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