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The flatbed pulled into Billy's Garage in Beatty, off highway 95 between Las Vegas and Reno. Darleen's old Mustang had made it nearly this far toward Las Vegas, but no further. She frankly was surprised she'd gotten this far toward her new dream.
Sam, the young, hunky guy who had put her Mustang on the truck, had kept her from thinking too much or too hard about what it would take to put the Mustang back on the road. For this she was grateful. She also was grateful that he was such a young, solid hunk with a ready smile. If he probably wasn't ten years younger than she was...
For his part, Sam hadn't seen anything this good looking and sexy in months. He couldn't help but smile and give a long, low whistle for the strawberry blond in her halter top and Daisy Duke jeans shorts standing by the Mustang in the middle of nowhere, looking all forlorn.
Billy came out of the garage, wiping oil off his hands with a rag, as Sam pulled the Mustang off the flatbed and into a garage bay.
"I don't know what's wrong with it, and it can't be much or I can't get it fixed," Darleen said to Billy.
"We'll get it fixed and you on the road somehow, little darlin'," he said, giving her the once and twice over. He knew a women in the business when he saw one. They were always driving between Reno and Vegas. "Where you goin' and comin' from?" he asked.
"I've been in Reno and have work to go to in Vegas," she said.
"Entertainment work?" Billy asked. "You entertain people?"
She gave him a look. She knew what he was thinking. He was speaking to her augmented, melon-ripe breasts, so she knew how he swung. Well, he looked real good too. Not as young and hunky as Sam. He was older, maybe in his forties. But a great body for his age. He looked experienced.
"I dance the poles," she said.