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A Secret
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Erotic
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Getting
it All

Copyright
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GETTING IT ALL

Troy Storm

Copyright © 2013

Chapter
One

“I say he’s ready.”

“I say he’s not.”

“I say it’s up to him
and not you two.”

Dorothy Ardmore glanced
up from the fine head of blonde hair she was styling and rolled her eyes at her
gossiping friends. “I say you all ought to have better things to do than to
keep making bets on when Matt Bartholomew is going to drop his pants and
remember what to do with what’s inside.”

The six women in the
small
CoveHaven
Main Street beauty salon erupted in
giggles and full-throated laughs.

“Score one for Alice’s
successor,” the proprietor of The Crowning Glory remarked over the brunette
head to which she was adding highlights. “She would have been proud of you,
Dot.”

“Sorry, Amelia, but all
of you know Matt is as stubborn as Alice was easy-going, and her having been
gone for almost three years now, has only made him more so, it seems to me. I
don’t see a lot of movement in the direction of giving any of us a shot at
scoring with the town’s most eligible widower.”

“Well I say he’s not
ready and it’s a shame,” Lucy Drake, the younger highlighting customer in
Amelia’s chair remarked earnestly. “He’s good-looking, he’s got money, and the
pickings around aren’t all that great.”

“I even dated his chief
mechanic,” the outstanding ‘I-say-he’s-ready,’ Christy Swanson, the natural
white-blonde under Dorothy’s careful scissoring sardonically replied, shaking
her radiant shoulder length mane to check how it fell. She smiled approvingly
up at Dorothy. “Buddy may not be the beauty his boss is, but he got the job
done.
Just like you’re doing, babe.
My hair looks
great.”

“You all appall me.” In
the small waiting area, Marta
Dalaport
, the
tight-jawed ‘I say-it’s-up-to-him’ commenter, looked up from a well-thumbed
three month old copy of a fashion magazine to glance at a nearby much older
customer for corroboration. “Some men are a one-woman man and that’s that. It’s
tragic what befell our beloved Alice, but he seems to be managing fine. We all
miss her dearly, but she would want us to get on with our lives, and we have.
And her widower has, too, in his own way. I say leave him alone.”

Lucy stared at herself
in the large mirror facing the two styling chairs. “From what you all tell
me,
everything you and his buddies at his shop have tried to
do the last couple of years to get him out and about hasn’t worked, anyway. It
does seem such a waste. He’s very sexy,” she noted shyly.
“Especially
for an older man.”

“He’s sexy…for a man.”
Christy ran her fingers through her white-blonde locks and shook her head.
Satisfied with the impressive effect, she smiled at her stylist who was
standing over her with scissors and comb. “And my professional opinion is that
he’s ready. Last time I dropped by to say hi, he checked me out. Even Buddy
noticed it. I don’t think that man’s checked out anything but
Brunnie’s
Oldsmobile since Alice took off for a better
place. Right,
Brunnie
?”