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And that was what we were doing.
Cruising Roosevelt, looking for Divinity.
And it felt skeevy.
We’d stopped a couple of times to talk to a few ladies of the evening, but we learned really quickly not to show her mugshot to them. They were friendly enough on approach, but they got hinky when you showed a mugshot.
The last one we asked (sansmugshot) said she didn’t know her.
I didn’t believe her, but we didn’t push.
I was driving, Luna on the lookout for Divinity and a tail, and by this time, we’d done a back and forth on Roosevelt at least five times.
No Divinity.
She was pretty, maybe she was popular, which made her busy.
“There’s another one,” Luna said. “I think we should stop and see if she knows our girl.”
“Maybe we should give up and try again some other time.”
“Just pull in here,” she ordered.
Man, Luna was into this shit.
On a sigh, I pulled into a 7-Eleven and parked.
“Let’s walk back to her,” she said, and didn’t wait for my response.
She got out.
Considering the ’hood we were in, with my new-and-improved stun gun in my crossbody, I got out too.
We hoofed it to where the woman Luna had seen was standing, leaning against a dark building that looked like whatever it used to be, it had stopped being that about half a century ago. Not only was the interior completely dark, the cages over the windows seemed rusted, and there was a thick crust of litter that had been blown up against the building on the sidewalk that sun, wind and monsoons had transformed into a permanent addition.
It would take a sledgehammer to get that stuff loose.
As we approached, I had the same thought I’d had about the others we’d chatted to: that I hoped this was her choice of occupation, and no man or drug was forcing her into this.
When we got closer, we saw she was Latina, petite (or would be, if she wasn’t in sky-high platform sandals), very pretty and carried some extra weight, which her skin-tight cami and mini-skirt showed off to full advantage.
“Hey,” Luna greeted.
She looked us over. “What you twogringasdoin’ out here?”
“We’re looking for Divinity,” I said. “Have you seen her?”
My heart sped up when she replied, “She got herself a client. She’s at the hotel,” and she jerked her chin to indicate a seedy motel across the street.
“She been with him long?” Luna asked.
“What’s it to you?” she shot back.
“We wanna talk to her, and I’d like to know how long we’ll be waiting,” Luna returned.
“Guy didn’t strike me as an all-nighter type,” she said. “Probably hand job only, so she’ll be out soon.”
“I’m Kelly,” I told her, feeling kinda like a dick I didn’t give her my real name.
