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“You meet him?”
“We have.”
“Then why’re you asking? She’s gorgeous up the waz, he’s a nerd looks like he’s got low T—testosterone. Got to tell you, it’s a surprise. I’m sure she could’ve got another rich guy who wasn’t a nerd—did she love him? I mean anything’s possible, but still…”
“Who knows how she felt about him, we can’t ask her,” said Milo. “But the fact that she was partying with Gio—”
“Means nothing,” said Rhonda Montel. “Love is here.” Another breast pat. “What happens here”—dropping to her crotch—“is from a whole different nervous system. A guy I know, a brilliant doctor, told me. Wires and glands, it’s complicated.”
“Learn something new every day,” said Milo. “So what was her maiden name, Rikki?”
“In Vegas she went by Jones.”
“Meagin Jones.”
“Was that real? No idea.” Shrug.
Milo said, “I think we both have an idea.”
“Yeah, well, can’t blame her, lots of weirdos in Vegas. We all had dancing names. Mine was Ravenette, hers was Ash. Coincidence, we thought it was funny, both of us using our hair for the idea. Hers was ash back then, almost white, she ironed it, it hung down her back. Not as long as mine but long.”
“Where’d she dance?”
“By the time I knew her she’d stopped so can’t give you any names.”
“New career,” said Milo.
“Don’tjudge!”
He shifted his chair inches from her knees. “Rikki, stop worrying about that. So she was working a casino.”
“Bunch of casinos. The good ones. She had the looks and the style for that. Made enough bank to pay off bellmen and whoever.”
“The good ones being…”
“Caesars, MGM, Bellagio, Venetian, whatever. She never said, all I know is she did well.”
“Moving around.”
“Why not? Who wants to be a sitting duck?” Her face crumpled. “Don’t bullshit me: did she suffer?”
“No. It was quick with no struggle.”
“Stabbed or shot?”
“Shot.”
Several blinks brought up a rush of tears. Milo handed her a tissue.
“Thank you. It really was quick?”
“Definitely, Rikki. Does that make you think of anything?”
“Like what?”
“Someone who’d do that. Walk in and shoot two people and leave without robbing them?”
“What about whatsisname, Prince Nerd-O?”
