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Milo looked at Sean. “Bring her water, Detective Binchy. An energy bar, too.”
“Got it, Loot.”
Rhonda Montel said, “I told you I was fine.”
“Just in case.”
“What, you feel guilty for hassling me then freaking me out?”
Milo said, “You just got even more valuable to us.”
“Really?” A hard look gave way to a smile.
“Really, Rikki. Whatever you can tell us about Giovanni and Meg will be hugely helpful.”
“There’s nothing to tell,” she said. “Two of the sweetest people. Him, I just knew as a date.”
“But you were close to Meagin.”
“We liked each other,” she said. “There was nothing not to like about her.”
“You called her the baby.”
“She was younger than the rest of us. But we all liked her.”
Milo smiled. “You met her in Vegas.”
“We all met in Vegas. The two others—Frankie who’s in New York and cooking her little heart out and Cherry who died—they were bothshowgirls. Tall drinks of water. They got dumped, the way showgirls always do when they have the nerve to develop a wrinkle. That happens, you do what you have to—donotjudge.”
“Wish I could convince you, Rikki. We couldn’t care less about anything except murder.”
“Murder,” she said. “What a fucked-up job you have—anyway, that’s it about Vegas. We hung out there then decided to try L.A. My idea because I was born here. Huntington Park. I figured why not try something new and the others agreed.”
“Including Meagin.”
“Especially Meagin,” she said. “She was always about a new adventure. One time, in Vegas, she spent some serious bank on a skydiving lesson. Showed us a video and I nearly puked just looking at her.”
“A risk-taker.”
“But not when it came to work, she was careful about work, steered clear of anyone who even smelled of creepy. Said she’d had enough of weird.”
“How so?”
Rhonda Montel shook her mane. “That’s all she said.”
Milo waited.
She said, “It’s not going to change because you’re doing the silent-treatment thing. She never said and no one pushed. None of us liked those stories—ours or anyone else’s.”
“Got it. What else can you tell us about her, Rikki? Starting with her name before she got married.”
“She actuallymarriedhim? Shit. I just thought they were playing house.”
“No, they were legally married a year and a half ago.”
“Right after she bagged him…man, talk about working fast. Her and him matrimonying…talk about the odd couple.”
“How so?”
