"Kiser, Marcia - Some Like It Hot" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kiser Marcia)

"Well, yeah. I mean, why else would she be buck-nekkid?"

"I'm sure I don't know, but it seems reasonable, if you ask me," I said. "I thought ya might wanna know who Daisey Mae'd been seeing."

"I know."

"You do? You know she was seeing Tiny over at the garage?"

"Yep. She broke up with Cody last month. Told him she was tired of smelling cow shit all the time."

"Oh," I said in a small voice. "Did you know she had her sights set on somebody new?"

Jimmy Bob's boots hit the floor. "She did?"

"She sure did, Shug," I said, feeling a little smug. "She's dated Tiny off and on for years, but it's never took. She only sees him when she's in-between."

"Ya know who?"

"That's the funny part, I don't. You canЕ erЕuh, could always tell when Daisey- Mae had a new man. First she'd get her hair done up special, then she'd get her nails done. And then, when she was ready to jump his bones, she'd get a pedicure, which she just happened to have Ethel do yesterday."

"Ya figger she was, uh, fixin' to hit the sheets with this guy?"

"Near as I can figure, she was. Normally, by the time she got her toes painted, me and Ethel were sick to death of hearing about her new Mr. Wonderful. But this time, whenever we'd ask, she'd just grin that big ol' grin of hers and change the subject. Of course, I had my ideas on who it might be. It had me wondering if it might not be serious."

"Well, ain't ya gonna tell me?"

"I'm thinking it might be Elbert."

"Elbert? I thought you were datin' him."

"How the hellЕerЕI mean, what do you mean? You know I don't date."

"Fiona, you may not date, but everybody in this county and the next knows about you and Elbert," Jimmy Bob laughed.

"I'm a respected, middle-aged, widowed, tax-paying businesswoman. I guess I got a right to have a few friends."

"Yeah, but do you fix all your friends breakfast at 5:30 every morning?" Jimmy Bob snickered like an eight-year-old with a new copy of National Geographic featuring African tribes.

"He had car trouble. . . "

"Elbert. And Dudley. And Marvin." Jimmy Bob waved his hands. "Fiona, it don't matter a stick to me who you wanna fix breakfast for. What does matter is why you think Daisey Mae was seeing Elbert when I know you was seein' him."

I felt my face flush. "We stopped seeing each other."

"When was this?"

"This week."

"Why?"