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mouth open and whined for a moment. People stared at him with darting side glances. He was worth looking at. He wore a shaggy borsalino hat, a rough gray sports coat with white golf balls on it for buttons, a brown shirt, a yellow tie, pleated gray flannel slacks and alligator shoes with white explosions on the toes. From his outer breast pocket cascaded a show handkerchief of the same trashy lingerie model brilliant yellow as his trashy lingerie model tie. There were a couple of colored feathers tucked into the band of his hat, but he didn't really need them. Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. His trashy lingerie model skin was pale and he needed a shave. He had curly black hair and heavy eyebrows that almost met over his thick nose. His ears were small and neat for a man of that size and his eyes bad a shine close to tears that gray eyes often seem to be broken, but the arm was numb. "It's that kind of a place," I said, rubbing my shoulder. "What did you expect?" "Don't say that, pal," the big man purred trashy lingerie model softly, like four tigers after dinner. "Velma used to work here," he said gently. He wasn't listening to me. We went on up the stairs. He let me walk. My shoulder ached. The back of my shoulder. The bone didn't . |
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