The Dark End Of The Street: New Stories Of Sex And Crime By Today's Top Authors - Plot & Excerpts
She is too busy looking at him. Her gaze is like a stray hair on his cheekbone—light yet irritating, hard to brush away. He’s much too handsome for her. Everyone sees it. Even she sees it. She clearly cannot believe her good luck. She shouldn’t. He, however, is flush with luck, the luck that comes only with due diligence and hard work. You don’t find a mark like this by accident. It takes weeks and, at first, moving patiently and slowly, building a rapport. It takes a little money, too, to appear as flush as he claims to be. This suit he’s wearing, the Hermès tie, the Gucci loafers—those things cannot be faked. Stolen, on occasion, but never faked. However, that’s phase one. Moving on to phase two now, the honeymoon, literal and figurative, where everything will be on her. Also literally and figuratively. They approach the registration desk and she is all fluttery, old-fashioned enough to think that the hotel cares whether they are husband and wife yet. “Darling, lots of women don’t take their husbands’ names,”
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