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I could no longer keep a straight face, I said, "Since when are you so concerned about your virtue?"
She grabbed my shirt. "Look Buzz, this is serious. You know I enjoy sex just as much as the next girl, uh, or…uh, maybe you don't know. But that doesn't matter because I don't do married men, and I like to say who and I like to say when, and where sure as hell is not among his wife, Carole's, grafted cactus plants!"
"He was going to nail you in the cactus plants? Ouch!"
"Yeah, Carole was off in Texas or New Mexico or somewhere, and that slimy toad thought it was a good time to express his unrequited love for me. If he'd have touched me one more time, I would have given him a new definition of 'Love Lies Bleeding', and I don't mean the common name of an Amaranth!"
"Wow, Mag, I had no idea. Speaking of ideas, how long ago was this trip Carole took to Texas? The Geriatric Mod Squad said something at Mom's about Carole being in Mexico last week. What is she doing in the southwest? Visiting family all the time?"
Could her trips to the southwest, the mysterious seeds, and her untimely demise be connected? "Mag, you just might be on to something here."
Warming to the idea of intrigue, Mag momentarily forgot Glenn's perfidy and her sticky buns. "I thought she was from the east coast, but I do know she did a lot of work with rare and endangered plants. In fact, she was working with some research group on propagating rare species from the southwest. Glenn told me that much when he was chasing me around the potting shed."
"You really might have our first clue, Maggie girl. That was Mee-Me calling a minute ago, and he has already contacted the state crime lab.
"One of their plant gurus happens to be in Milwaukee at a conference. He or she will be stopping by today to look at some seeds I found in Carole's pocket, before they go back to Madison. If the good doctor isn't too much of a stuffed shirt, maybe he or she will go out to Graff's with us and do a little diggin' in the dirt; you know, looking for some real dirt."
"You do have an excellent turn of phrase, Buzz, but do you think I should still go with you because of Glenn and all? Maybe I should clean up and lay low. Besides, I don't feel like playing the nice-nice to some jerk and having to keep company with some boring algae man, or worse, some woman."
"Margaret Anne Genevieve Miller, since when has a man or woman ever intimidated you? Tell you what; if Glenn makes any kind of move toward you, I'll hold him down while you kick his caboodles, okay?
"We'll also have that bullet-brained plant geek with us and he can slap him with some seaweed or just bore Glenn to death with plankton and petunias. How's about that?"
She chuckled, and I knew that meant she felt better. Sticky, but better. "It's a deal, Buzz." We chatted for a couple more minutes, before Burt's breakfast began to dry on her skin and she started to itch. She decided to walk home and clean up. We agreed I'd pick her up when the hot-shot from Madison arrived at the morgue. We parted ways. I couldn't help laughing while I watched Mag waddle home, pieces of Burt's breakfast falling off her in chunks and making her look like the killer pancake from Hell. Good thing she lived close by. Half the dogs and all the bees in the neighborhood would soon be following her around.
5
Dallas/Fort Worth the same day
The World Championship Appaloosa Horse Show is the elite competition of the finest halter and performance horses in the Appaloosa industry. Big names and big money abound. In this arena at least, Alejandro Montoya was truly an equal, rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars and world class trainers, as well as owners' families and their grooms.
The three men arrived at Fort Worth's Will Rogers Equestrian Center early in the evening on Thursday. Unloading the horses went without incident. Each mare was allowed time to stretch her legs before being placed in her respective stall. Princesa was feeling her
She grabbed my shirt. "Look Buzz, this is serious. You know I enjoy sex just as much as the next girl, uh, or…uh, maybe you don't know. But that doesn't matter because I don't do married men, and I like to say who and I like to say when, and where sure as hell is not among his wife, Carole's, grafted cactus plants!"
"He was going to nail you in the cactus plants? Ouch!"
"Yeah, Carole was off in Texas or New Mexico or somewhere, and that slimy toad thought it was a good time to express his unrequited love for me. If he'd have touched me one more time, I would have given him a new definition of 'Love Lies Bleeding', and I don't mean the common name of an Amaranth!"
"Wow, Mag, I had no idea. Speaking of ideas, how long ago was this trip Carole took to Texas? The Geriatric Mod Squad said something at Mom's about Carole being in Mexico last week. What is she doing in the southwest? Visiting family all the time?"
Could her trips to the southwest, the mysterious seeds, and her untimely demise be connected? "Mag, you just might be on to something here."
Warming to the idea of intrigue, Mag momentarily forgot Glenn's perfidy and her sticky buns. "I thought she was from the east coast, but I do know she did a lot of work with rare and endangered plants. In fact, she was working with some research group on propagating rare species from the southwest. Glenn told me that much when he was chasing me around the potting shed."
"You really might have our first clue, Maggie girl. That was Mee-Me calling a minute ago, and he has already contacted the state crime lab.
"One of their plant gurus happens to be in Milwaukee at a conference. He or she will be stopping by today to look at some seeds I found in Carole's pocket, before they go back to Madison. If the good doctor isn't too much of a stuffed shirt, maybe he or she will go out to Graff's with us and do a little diggin' in the dirt; you know, looking for some real dirt."
"You do have an excellent turn of phrase, Buzz, but do you think I should still go with you because of Glenn and all? Maybe I should clean up and lay low. Besides, I don't feel like playing the nice-nice to some jerk and having to keep company with some boring algae man, or worse, some woman."
"Margaret Anne Genevieve Miller, since when has a man or woman ever intimidated you? Tell you what; if Glenn makes any kind of move toward you, I'll hold him down while you kick his caboodles, okay?
"We'll also have that bullet-brained plant geek with us and he can slap him with some seaweed or just bore Glenn to death with plankton and petunias. How's about that?"
She chuckled, and I knew that meant she felt better. Sticky, but better. "It's a deal, Buzz." We chatted for a couple more minutes, before Burt's breakfast began to dry on her skin and she started to itch. She decided to walk home and clean up. We agreed I'd pick her up when the hot-shot from Madison arrived at the morgue. We parted ways. I couldn't help laughing while I watched Mag waddle home, pieces of Burt's breakfast falling off her in chunks and making her look like the killer pancake from Hell. Good thing she lived close by. Half the dogs and all the bees in the neighborhood would soon be following her around.
5
Dallas/Fort Worth the same day
The World Championship Appaloosa Horse Show is the elite competition of the finest halter and performance horses in the Appaloosa industry. Big names and big money abound. In this arena at least, Alejandro Montoya was truly an equal, rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars and world class trainers, as well as owners' families and their grooms.
The three men arrived at Fort Worth's Will Rogers Equestrian Center early in the evening on Thursday. Unloading the horses went without incident. Each mare was allowed time to stretch her legs before being placed in her respective stall. Princesa was feeling her
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