Page 101 of Back in the Saddle

“Does anyone know the story of this Mountain guy, or his name?” Raye asked.

“No name, but he street,” Jinx told us. “To his bones.”

“And that means?” I pushed.

“Never shared a burger withel guapo, so he hasn’t told me his life story,” Jinx began. “But it’s known wide he grew up in a tent with hismamá.”

“Like, homeless?” Harlow breathed.

“His whole life?” Luna added.

“Not sure about his whole life. Heard word hismamáain’t all there. She ain’t on the street no more, though. He got big and strong, he took care of her,” Jinx said on a firm nod.

“Is he known asel guapoas well as Mountain?” Harlow asked.

All the ladies smiled big.

“No, but heguapo,chica.Muy guapo,” Jinx shared.

“Good looking?” Harlow requested confirmation.

“Tom Hardy is good looking,” Skyla put in. “Mountain isguapo.” And she put a whole lotta emphasis onguapo.

“Hardy do it for you?” Persia asked Skyla.

“He doesn’t do it for you?” Skyla asked Persia.

“I’d give him a freebie, for certain. Did you read that letter he wrote to his dead dog?” Persia asked Skyla.

Skyla put both hands to her chest. “Ohmigod! Melt!”

That letter was sweet and all.

But…

I really needed my burger.

Raye reined it in. “Okay, let’s move on to the situation with the people going missing from the homeless camps.”

Jinx shook her head. “Heard nothin’ about that.”

Persia shook her head too. “Me either.”

Skyla just shook her head.

Divinity sucked up some drink, and after she swallowed it, around her straw, she said, “That’s sad, though. They got enough problems without someone cruisin’ in and pickin’ ’em off.”

She was right about that.

“You’ll keep your ear to the ground?” Luna asked.

Jinx lifted a hand and circled a finger at the table. “You pickin’ up this bill?”

They’d ordered food too.

“Yes,” Luna said.

“Definitely,” Raye said.

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