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“Judge Reynard came in for me.” I hung the dress on the hook over the
door.
“The shit money buys.” She started unbuttoning her shirt. “Don’t look.”
She spun her finger in a circle to make a turning motion before she
undid another button, exposing the center of her lace bra. The contour of
her breasts was just visible above the cup.
“Come on,” she insisted. “Turn around, you perv.”
I twisted to face the window. The tinting dimmed the streets as they
blew by.
“We need to lock down our story,” I said, trying to ignore the rustle of
clothes a foot away. “Where we met. How long we’ve been together.”
“We have to stay close to the truth. We met at Wildwood.”
“But you left.”
“And we met again like… what’s reasonable?”
Out of the corner of my eye, she wiggled out of her jeans. The
temptation to see if her panties matched her bra was overwhelming.
“Four months ago,” I said. “How can I ever forget the moment I saw
you again, after all those years? Starbucks on La Cienega. I was waiting for
an Americano and you were ordering… what’s your drink?”
“Vanilla latte.” A long zipper hissed as it was undone. “Sometimes.”
“I didn’t take you for a vanilla latte person.” Again I wanted to look,
and again I kept my eyes on the passing city.
“And I didn’t take you for a guy who’d wait in line for anything.”
“When my driver’s parked in the red and my assistant’s doing her job, I
get my own coffee. Best decision of my life. Saw you as soon as you
walked in, and I paid for your drink. You filled a place in my soul or
something. I didn’t recognize you until you came up to me to say thank
you.”
“This is full of holes. You had to recognize me. A guy like you wouldn’t
have picked me out of a crowd.” I felt her transfer to the seat next to me.
“You’re not making this easy.”
“It’s not my job to make this easy. Can you zip this?”
Finally, I turned around. She was twisted awkwardly to show me the
triangle of skin where the back zipper was open. A line of lace bisected it. I
could unhook the bra right there.
“A guy like me?” Slowly, I zipped up the dress, enclosing her beautiful
skin behind white fabric.