Murder is My Business
“and held out her arms to him. Her lips were dry and hot and hard. Ten years had done some shocking things to her. She had been a leggy youngster with a rich, dark beauty that burned beneath the surface and glowed in her eyes. She had been vital and alive, tingling with youth and a fervid passion for life and love.
Now her long-limbed body was thin and taut, her face almost haggard. Two spots of rouge far back on her cheeks gave her a feverish look, and her eyes glittered with the same unnatural brightness. She was the embodiment of a woman who for a long time had made a habit of drinking too much, and sleeping and eating too little.
Shayne stepped back from her embrace, and she slid her hands down his arms to grip his fingers tightly. She asked, “Do you always come into your room with a bound like that?”
“How did you get in?”
“Oh, I bribed the bellboy. He asked me if I was Mrs. Shayne, and I told him I wasn’t, and he seemed to think that made everything all right.”
Shayne released his... hands from hers and went back to close the door.MoreLess
Now her long-limbed body was thin and taut, her face almost haggard. Two spots of rouge far back on her cheeks gave her a feverish look, and her eyes glittered with the same unnatural brightness. She was the embodiment of a woman who for a long time had made a habit of drinking too much, and sleeping and eating too little.
Shayne stepped back from her embrace, and she slid her hands down his arms to grip his fingers tightly. She asked, “Do you always come into your room with a bound like that?”
“How did you get in?”
“Oh, I bribed the bellboy. He asked me if I was Mrs. Shayne, and I told him I wasn’t, and he seemed to think that made everything all right.”
Shayne released his... hands from hers and went back to close the door.MoreLess
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