Chapter 8

The California sun shown brightly as Rudy and Earl made their way back up the coast in the bearded man's Volkswagen. Earl couldn't conceal the constant grin that played about his thin- lipped mouth, and several times he had looked over to see his cohort smiling to himself. The deal was coming off all right, even better than they had originally hoped for, Earl thought happily.

"Rudy, you're a smooth bastard," he said in praise. "And don't tell me that you didn't have that planned all along... about the girls, I mean."

Rudy grinned proudly. "Tell you, man, you got to be thinking every fucking minute if you're going to make it in this lousy world. Know what I mean?"

"I'm beginning to see the light," Earl agreed. "Wow, I just about blew when that Mex bastard said the price had gone up to one-twenty-five. He talked as if twenty-five Gs was peanuts."

"It is for him, buddy boy. The Senor is probably a couple of million anyway and he's made it all in the rackets," Rudy said, his gaze unwavering from the freeway ahead. "But it was like I told you... I had him figured to boost the price on us; that's the way those sons-o' bitches work down there. And there isn't much you can do only play their game... and maybe try to outwit them, eh?"

Earl chuckled. "Shit, I can't believe it yet," he said.

"We call such a maneuver 'the-killing-two-birds-with-one- stone' gambit," Rudy said, grinning behind his beard.

"So now, we go back and pick up the chicks and Walo, then head for the cave to wait, right?"

"You forgot one thing... the loot," Rudy put in.

"Shit, man, I know you're not about to leave that behind," said Earl, laughing. "Only, I got to admit that you stoned me by telling Virgin where you had it stashed."

Rudy shook his head. "Don't be an asshole, man. You think I'm that far gone? No sir, Baby, this cat knows better than that. You see, I figure if the doll's wearing out for me, then there's a good chance that I'm running thin for her, too. Now, to leave the loot where she could scoop it up and hustle off someplace would be just asking for it; on the other hand, if I let her think its stashed in the usual place, maybe she don't suspect anything."

"Unless she gets nosy, man, and takes herself a look," Earl put in.

"In that case, Baby, I did the right thing in moving it, eh?" Rudy said, chuckling.

Earl laughed with him, shaking his head at the amazing shrewdness of his partner. Shit, it was going to be honeysuckle and roses for them both once they peddled the cache to the Black man. Two hundred fucking Gs... a hundred apiece! Wow! Wait'll his little Rachel-baby got a glimpse of those figures. Her old man, too! They'd know, then, what a goddamned tycoon he really was! And he wasn't going to stop there, either; if he could make a hundred of 'em, he could make another two hundred just as smoothly. Damn, if only the whole friggin' take was going to be his, instead of having to divvy up. Actually, he had the most invested, was taking the biggest gamble with his sixty grand to Rudy's thirty, plus the loot Rudy collected from the bitches' ass- peddling. He ought to be getting a bigger cut than fifty percent, but he knew Rudy wouldn't like it if he pushed it... and he couldn't get along without the big man... not yet, anyway. Better to let things ride until the whole fucking thing was settled, then there'd be plenty of time... and he always had Walo who would do any fucking thing he told him to do. Yeah, just let things coast for the time being... until after Lopez landed the cache at the cave that night.

"What you doing, man, counting your money?" Rudy asked glancing over at Earl and interrupting his thought patterns.

"Yeah... more or less."

Rudy nodded, fixing his eyes back on the highway. Jesus, he thought, the lunkhead was a stupid bastard. It was going to be like taking candy from a snot-faced baby. The dumdum didn't deserve any of it; he was too fucking dense. Any cat in his right mind who would trade a doll like the blonde bitch he had for some hustling cunt had to be weak on the grey matter. Fuck, he'd had her too, sucking right on the end of his cock like a hungry kid on a lollypop, and then the crazy bastard had to come ranting as if he were the cheated husband. Prick! What a surprise he was in for!

Of course, he doubted that he could mend things with Lynn; he'd really had to put her down in front of the bastard in order to save his own skin... and she wasn't the type of chick a cat could use over once. Shit, if he could smooth things between them, he would do it in a minute. She was a luscious bitch... but there just wasn't any way... especially now that he'd made and bound the deal with ten grand to Lopez.

Oh, what the hell, there was a million of them running around loose anyway... just waiting, to latch onto a daddy-cock with loot, and he was going to have plenty of it after tonight... plenty of bread and no ties... what so-ever! Now, wasn't that going to be something, though... ?

Lynn and Virgin had slept together in the same bed they had shared love in the night before. Walo sat by the door, carrying out Earl's order. In the morning, Virgin had awakened first and drew Lynn's naked loveliness tight against her, teasing the blonde girl's eyes open with tender, warm kisses all over her face, while her hands caressed her baby's lush breasts and smooth, rounded buttocks, then played delight fully between her full, satiny thighs in the golden hair and pink, sensitive split of her pussy.

Lynn gasped aloud at the heady enchantment she was awakened to, its delicious sensations sweeping through her quickly aroused body like a welcomed prairie fire. She had often opened her eyes in the morning to gnawing little sexual fermentations, and just as often had satisfied them with her own fingers... but this morning her darling's hand was fulfilling her need.

She started to speak but Virgin stopped her, then pressed her ivory-hued, hardened-nippled breast between her lips, and Lynn let herself be swallowed up by the intoxicating rapture that her new lover was bringing her. Tenderly, she sucked at Virgin's sweet- tasting breast, while the willowy brunette held her lovingly against her and stroked her cunt with skilled, magic fingers.