Free Clint Faraday Mysteries Collection B :This Job is Murder Collector's Edition by CD Moulton

he would come on to Cori. Matt told Ann
about it and she laughed. Cori could handle herself. Luis was a
very handsome man. Too bad he didn’t come on to her!
    Matt laughed and said the Indian women were
very sexy and that long thick black hair was one hell of a turn-on.
They joked a bit about it. Mark came over and was told about the
joke. He said Cori probably was no virgin, but the family was on
the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” bus. They all knew how important
protection was today and what kind of situations not to allow to
develop. It was an individual decision as to what and with whom you
decided to do. Mike, who was the most talkative of the family,
talked to Clint a lot of the way. He explained that their father
always taught them that the fact they were so fortunate meant they
owed others some thought. The result was that they went all over
the Americas and made friends, for the most part. Others they had
met traveling were exactly what many people thought gringos were.
Overbearing, arrogant and totally selfish. He really liked people
like Luis who could make little jokes about anything. People with
good senses of humor were generally good people to be around. Cori
had some experience and might even take Luis up on it. It was her
decision.
    Clint said he’d met enough of the asshole
type. There were places where gringos congregated, communities, and
a lot of them were exactly like that. Pains in the ass. Mike said
it right. “And all gringos have to live with what those few
are.”
    Pablo was riding silently beside them where
the trail was wide enough. He said some gringos were worse than the
curses from the brujas. He should know! Many of the ones who came
to the Dominican Republic thought all natives were slaves to be
ordered around. They were very deeply resented. Then the Campbells
came and showed them all gringos were not alike.
    They passed two younger Indios (early
twenties) going down the mountain and stopped to chat. One of them
was wearing a wig and make-up. He was introduced as Rigo, better
known as Lola. He was going to David for a transvestite show at the
Texas. Clint didn’t know how the Campbells would take that, but
they seemed merely slightly interested. Ann even showed Rigo how to
use eyeliner and shade in a way that made him attractive without
making him look like a cheap whore.
    He said that was the object. Look like a
cheap whore or a movie star.
    “ But who you attract as an attractive
girl is not the same as when you look like a puta,” she pointed
out. “Of course, I don’t know if you want to attract a certain
type.”
    “ I’d like to attract someone who looks
like either of those!” he replied, pointing to Mike and
Mark.
    Mike grinned and said, “Yo, Mom! I think I
don’t care for all this mountain stuff so maybe I could go to David
with these guys!”
    “ When you’re eighteen. You can’t go as
a minor. You have to wait until they get back and you can stay at
their house here. Use protection. I’ve warned you about AIDS and
herpes.” She giggled and smirked.
    “ Then I don’t think I’ll go to David!”
Rigo cried.
    Pablo and Maria (who seldom said a word,
anyway) were the only ones who seemed uneasy or in any way bothered
by them. They moved away and waited, looking at some of the many
bromeliads and orchids in the trees by the trail.
    They joked a bit more, then went onward and
upward. Mike said he had gay friends and that they were just
people. Who anyone slept with was their own personal business –
which is the Indio philosophy.
    “ It is not natural,” Pablo protested.
“They are cursed!”
    “ Oh, bullshit,” Mike said. “They aren’t
any different than anyone else. You’ll get all preachy about what’s
natural, then brag about screwing some whore in the ass or getting
a blow job.
    “ Got news for you! That isn’t anymore
natural than the gay people.”
    “ Rigo is a handsome kid. That’s the sad
thing. He won’t have kids to pass it along,”