The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 2 - Plot & Excerpts
She used the key I had given her a long time ago and walked into the living room bringing with her the warmth and love for life that was like turning on the light.I said, “Hello, beautiful,” and I didn’t have to say anything more because there was more in the words than the sound of my voice and she knew it.She started to smile slowly and her mouth made a kiss. Our lips didn’t have to touch. She flung that warmth across the room and I caught it. Velda said, “Ugly face. You’re uglier now than you were but I love you more than ever.”“So I’m ugly. Underneath I’m beautiful.”“Who can dig down that deep?” she grinned. Then added, “Except me, maybe.”“Just you, honey,” I said.The smile that played around her mouth softened a moment, then she slipped out of the coat and threw it across the back of a chair.I could never get tired of looking at her, I thought. She was everything you needed just when you needed it, a bundle of woman whose emotions could be hard or soft or terrifying, but whatever they were it was what you wanted.
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