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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 12, 2007, 09:22:30 am ---Thanks for helping out on the quotes, ladies! I am behind on my re-reading. Hopefully I'll have a chance to catch up when I am travelling this week.
I feel like the license plate I saw this morning:
2MCH2DO
L
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Never enough time, never enough! Safe travels Leslie, we'll hold the fort for you :)
mariez:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 12, 2007, 09:22:30 am ---Thanks for helping out on the quotes, ladies! I am behind on my re-reading. Hopefully I'll have a chance to catch up when I am travelling this week.
I feel like the license plate I saw this morning:
2MCH2DO
L
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Fabienne, this is too funny. I had just typed almost the exact same thing and was about to hit post when I saw your reply! Ahh . . well, I guess great minds really do think alike! LOL!!
Safe travels, Leslie. LOL at the license plate - know the feeling. You mentioned in the comments how much you loved these words, so ... just for you from Chapter 55:
“You spoil me, Ennis, I swear.”
“Thank you,” Ennis leaned over, brushing his thumb across Ellery’s damp cheek, pushing loose strands of hair back from Ellery’s forehead and tucking them behind his ear. “It’s cause I love you.” Then Ennis leaned down and brushed his lips softly across Ellery’s lips, kissing him as gently as he had penetrated him earlier... giving him a subtle message.
That really is beautiful.
Marie
MaineWriter:
Yes, that really is....
In the great minds department, I was just about to post the same quote! LOL
Okay, back to work...
L
MaineWriter:
Good morning everyone,
Today, chapters 56-60:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/89607.html
In the car on the brief ride down, Wes said “So how is Ennis doin after this weekend?”
“Okay, considerin my back started actin up after we went ridin an I let it slip I could drop a few thousand dollars on a paso fino to go out on the trail with em so he didn’t have ta give up ridin with me.”
“Uh oh. What posssessed you on this of all weekends ta hit em over the head with that?”
“Wes, he seemed so upset about my back. You should a seen em on Nellie, racin down that trail at full tilt. He was in clover – an I owe you an apology. You do know yer horse men.”
“That’s cause I seen em with horses, Ellery. He gives Nellie an Pal an Socks the same look he gives you, if I might be so bold as to suggest it. He loves his animals, an ridin em is about the best kind a pleasure – of that kind – a man can enjoy.” He cleared his throat. “You know what I mean.”
“Well not bein the horse man you are I guess that makes sense, but yeah, I felt like I had ta reassure em, an fact is, trottin on a horse is about the worse thing I can do, an the only horses I know that don’t trot in that way are paso finos. Rode one a long time ago when my daddy was alive – goddamn nice horses.”
“An goddamn expensive. So...” Wes pulled the Oldsmobile up to the court building. “Before we go in ta see Mel an the judge, what did ya tell em?”
“He wanted ta know so I told em I had a couple a million. That was enough ta make his eyes drop out an yeah that was probably not the best timin considerin all a what we went through this week. But shit, Wes, I got real worried about em an was thinkin about a lot a things.”
“Thinkin about runnin away from all a this an buyin a ranch away from everythin in the world, yeah, you talked about this before, back after the Creek murders.”
“Don’t remind me, Wes,” Ellery looked out the window of the car. “Let’s just go.”
“This talk ain’t over, boy.”
“Didn’t think so. I just got ta let it settle. Ennis is okay.”
MaineWriter:
More from Chapter 56:
“But... why did you hire those boys to go after Ennis?”
Sevigny raised his head once more, eyes now moist with tears. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. “I figured if Ennis got roughed up an left in a ditch then you would be hot after the Brotherhood boys an wouldn’t be thinkin too clearly about the Wilkes thing.”
“An how did you know about me an Ennis?”
Sevigny glanced briefly at Ellery and then at the guard before fixing his eyes on a small window that led to an empty hallway. “My brother told me about this deputy sheriff down in the office where he worked, queer as a two dollar bill an bold as brass, he said, talked about it right in the interview when he went fer the internship. Said he even ran a queer bar in town, an his boyfriend was a bouncer down there. That’s how I found out about you.”
“An you thought you had an angle.”
Sevigny smiled sadly. “Yeah, I thought I had an angle.”
Ellery looked over at Wes, who nodded. “We’re gonna have the guard here get in touch with yer lawyer so we can get a statement about all this an get it all sorted. If it is true you didn’t actually ask those boys ta kill Wilkes then there may be somethin we can do on that with the D.A. It is good that yer comin clean on this, Brad. Better fer all concerned.”
Sevigny did not stand, but he looked up once more. “You know why I confessed?”
Ellery shook his head. He honestly did not know. “No, son.”
“Cause ya got nice legs,” Sevigny said with a wan smile.
Ellery shook his head in disbelief, and Wes opened the door, nodding to the guard. “This interview is over,” he said, voice a little too gruff.
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