I Knew It Would Be Useless To Ask
the diamond in the hoo-ha- and a big kiss
- if the opera house isn’t your proper hemisphere
- living near the Nile
- unsecured thigh high stockings
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I knew it would be useless to ask, but I couldn’t restrain myself. “What is this mission of Jim’s?”
“He couldn’t tell me the details,” Fleur said in a hushed voice. She hunched down in the panda suit and put a paw over her mouth, so the infatuated giggle-fit couldn’t get out. I saw it in her eyes, their intense blue made preternatural by the color of the costume. “What most surprised me was how sexy he looked in my gown,” she murmured behind her fuzzy blue paw. “You know the one I mean, with the sapphires across the chest and the diamond in the hoo-ha. Jim put that on, then left me with nothing more than a hearty thank-you and a big kiss on the lips.”
“Wait, Jim kissed you?” I asked. She nodded, her eyes rolling back in delirium at the memory.
“Does that make you jealous?” she stage-whispered.
In fact, jealousy was not what the news inspired. But I was going to be angry at Jim if my suspicions proved accurate. I wondered if he had bothered to develop a new trigger phrase. I licked my lips before speaking.
“Shouldn’t your husband be jealous about such things? You act as if the the opera house isn’t your proper hemisphere.”
Fleur sat up straight and stared blankly ahead. I thought, Dammit, Jim! She’s my wife, not a sleeper agent!
This was a possible clue to his mission, because he’d learned this hypnotic technique while he was living near the Nile and associating with a particular band of software pirates. He was probably headed for a rendezvous with those scallawags, and I wanted to intercept him. Maybe the fancy bejeweled gown would slow him down?
Peeking inside the blue panda costume, I confirmed that Fleur still wore her garter belt, but virtually nothing else.
Well, brother, I mused, let’s see how fast you can run in unsecured thigh high stockings.
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