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“Whatever.”

“But you only get thirty percent. That’s six hundred bucks.”

“Still a lot for ten minutes. Per hour that’s like—”

“—thirty-six hundred.”

“Yeah, way more than doctors and lawyers make.”

“You been with him before?” he asked.

“Three times before.”

“How can you tell with the blindfold? His voice?”

“It’s his smell,” she said, wrinkling her nose.

This piqued Rhett’s interest. “So what does he smell like?”

“Old. Mothballs, and something else I can’t quite figure out.”

She turned to him again as they sailed around a curve. “So you think I should get more than thirty percent?”

“Well, youaredoing all the work.”

“You’re rich, right?”

“How can you tell that?” asked Rhett.

“You were at the guy’s place. His goons called you sir and let you take me away. And your car smells and sounds expensive.”

“You could be a detective.”

She said in a coy voice, “Look, you wanna do it with me? It’s not like I got any personal satisfaction from him. And I get to keep a hundred percent.”

He looked her over. “How old are you?”

“Twenty-two.”

“No, really, how old are you?”

“Nineteen, I swear.”

“You got ID?”

“Left pocket of my dress. Why don’t you pull it out?” she added coyly.

He leaned over and snagged it, feeling the softness of her hip at the same time. She smelled good, honeysuckle and coconut.

The driver’s license showed her name as Laurel Burke, age nineteen, and it looked legit. At least it would give him plausible deniability. He took a picture of it with his phone, slipped it back into her pocket, this time stroking her hip and thigh.

“And don’t worry, I’m on the pill. Of course with the old guy it didn’t matter. You can’t get pregnantthatway.”

Though he was certain his father had never told Mindy, Rhett had found out his dad had undergone a vasectomy a while back. His father would probably just keep having sex with Mindy and blame the lack of offspring onherinability to conceive, since he’d already successfully fathered four offspring.

“Sometimes the pill fails. So Iwillbe using protection.”

“Where do you want to do it?” she asked.

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