Kingdom Come by Paul Neuhaus

Author:Paul Neuhaus [Neuhaus, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crabapple Cove Media
Published: 2019-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

When I got back to Santa Monica Boulevard, I looked both ways and tried to figure out if there was anything else I needed to do while I was in WeHo. My brain disappointed me by not coming up with anything. Feeling downcast (and thinking the rain would restart at any moment) I pointed myself toward my car. When I got there, I experienced an unwelcome deja vu. Sitting in the passenger seat was Evelyn, Randall Dunphey’s girl. The one he’d asked me to dodge. How was I supposed to dodge her when she kept appearing in my car?

I could probably start by keeping the car locked. Derp.

I got in on the driver’s side and sighed. “Hello, Evelyn.”

“You don’t have anything to eat this time.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I’d taken you on to raise.”

“That’s good,” she said. “You couldn’t afford me.” She was dressed in all black again. A different ensemble, but black still from head to toe. Se wasn’t wearing the make-up, though, and that was an improvement. No raccoon eyes. No death-black lips. “You told Randy we crossed paths yesterday,” she said.

“I did. He told me you were likely to pop up, so it seemed only right to tell him you already had.”

“I know he got to you first, but I bet you a chicken dinner my case is more interesting than his.”

“Could very well be, but I only do one at a time. I don’t have the brainpower for multiple cases.”

“What if the two cases are related?’’

“I’m going to stop you right there. Randall said your case was dangerous. It involved something I’d want no part of. I see no reason not to take him at his word.”

The little Goth girl made a “pfft”. “I assume Randy told you about his kink…”

I winced. One way or the other we were gonna talk about things I didn’t wanna talk about. “The whips and chains? Yeah, I didn’t want to talk about it then and I don’t wanna talk about it now.”

“Okay, but I was just going to give you an insight into Mr. Dunphey’s character. Would you believe he insists on a safe word?”

“A safe word?”

“Yeah, like when you’re doing the whole BDSM thing and it gets too intense and you say your safe word and the other person eases up.”

“Sounds prudent to me.”

“Not to me. I think if you’re gonna go you should go fer broke. No safe words for this girl.”

“What if you get, I dunno, choked out, robbed and raped?”

She shrugged. “That’s the game, isn’t it? It’s the risk more than anything else. That’s the real kick.”

I sighed, focusing my eyes on the world beyond my windshield and wondering why it just wouldn’t just rain. “Look, it’s not that I don’t appreciate this whole peek behind the curtain vis-à-vis sexual deviancy, but I told you. I don’t work two cases at once.” Going back over what she’d said, I couldn’t figure out why Randall’s insistence on a safe word was supposed to sway me. I guess she was encouraging me to be bold.

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