Tequila Blue (17 page)

I considered buying my wife the carpet-cleaner I'd been promising her for years and put a few ice cubes in my beer to finish it off. As Lourdes came and went in the bedrooms, she treated me to a magical glimpse of her body, which gave me an urgent desire to make love to her. I realized she was employing the full range of her talents, and the thought pleased me, because if there's no more sense of adventure between a man and a woman, the whole thing's had it.

I called the office, and everything was under control. Silver Bullet had not arrived, the Commander was having breakfast, and Maribel used
her best airport announcement voice. My tasks for the day consisted of placing forty thousand greenbacks, first-class Colombian in origin, welcome even on Wall Street, and controlling my dolt of an assistant, who was paying a little more attention than I needed to the Three Marias.

Our kids were at school. Just time for a quick session with Lourdes before my shower. Who knows, in ten years from now I might not be able to.

Her little apple breasts and body lubricated by all the sexual activity, Victoria Ledesma looks eighteen going on fifteen. When the cops appear, the dwarfs run off naked into the wood. Victoria raises a hand to ask for help then screams with pain as one of the cops beats her with his stick. She is thrown face down on the mattress and the stick is forced up her. Afterwards, one of the cops pulls out an enormous knife. Victoria Ledesma does not see the flash of light rising, falling, then rising again, dripping blood.

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