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face.
“What’s the matter?”
    The rest of her sisters joined in when
they, too, noticed Ginger’s pallor.
    “ Okay, sister, you’re
scaring me now,” Daisy said. “What’s the Purring Pussycat ? By the look on your
face, it can’t be good.”
    Ginger licked her lips.
“Well…the Purring Pussycat is a…a gentleman’s club.”
    “ That’s a strip club in
Gingerese,” Marigold said from across the room.
    “ I knew that.” Tansy scowled
at her sister.
    “ Yeah, but the guys didn’t.
Someone had to tell them,” Mari said with a shrug.
    “ Somehow, I don’t think any
of us had to tell
them what Ginger meant,” Tansy said with a wry grin. “I think they
all knew that already.”
     
    * * * *
     
    Tony wanted to laugh at mischievous
look in Marigold’s beautiful green eyes. “Your sister is correct.
I’m sure we could have figured it out, little sister.”
    Mari flashed him a grin, then grabbed
the napkin the others were passing around. “I have an idea. It’s a
crazy one,” she paused to shrug, “but what do we have to
lose?”
    Everyone turned their attention to
Marigold, who didn’t seem to fit her name like most of the other
sisters. Her blueblack hair and green eyes did little to remind him
of a marigold.
    “ What is your idea?” Viktor
asked, his face pulled into a frown.
    “ Well…” She pressed her lips
together and looked around. “Don’t shoot me for suggesting it, but
I happen to know that May has been donating a thousand dollars a
month to the local abused children’s shelter.”
    “ Where in the world is she
getting a thousand dollars a month?” April asked, looking at each
of them as though they would know the answer.
    Ginger cleared her throat. “Well…” she
paused to look down at her fingers twisting together on the table.
“You all know that I work two weekends a month and make good money
on those two weekends, don’t you?”
    “ No. We all thought you were
living so well on the money Mom and Dad left us.” Rose’s comment
was a bit on the sarcastic side.
    “ What are you talking about?
They never left us money. They only left us property.” Ginger
frowned.
    “ Yeah,” Mari joined the
conversation. “I think they gave all the money to the
boys.”
    “ The boys didn’t get dick. I
think they thought we were set, since we’re all older and already
established in our careers,” Lance said as he entered the room and
leaned against the wall, his hands in his pockets. “Any
news?”
    “ Where have you been?” April
turned to their brother, then waved her hand dismissively. “Never
mind. There’s no new news except that Tony here is Tansy’s mate and
May has a collection of cocktail napkins from a club called
the Purring Pussycat .”
    “ She has what?” Lance’s eyes
rounded and his face grew red. “Oh, my God! I knew that girl looked
familiar!” He spun on his heel and practically ran down the hall
toward the stairs. The girls and their respective mates clamored
behind him. At some point, all of them asking, “What’s wrong with
him?”
    Tony grinned. He couldn’t help himself.
He was sure Lancelot Flowers was scarred for life if he’d just
watched his sister strip in a club.
    “ What in the hell is she
doing there?” Lance said with a growl as he stomped down the
stairs. “Thank God, April called me out of that dump before she’d
taken her clothes off.” He shuddered. “Oh, my God.” He turned to
the rest of them. “I’d better not hear of any of you doing that for
a living.”
    “ Too late.” Ginger glared at
him and crossed her arms as though daring him to make
judgments.
    Tony wanted to laugh. Apparently, his
sisters knew how to handle him. It was about time at least one of
their brothers cared enough to hang around and see what the Flowers
girls were up to.
    Hell, in his mind, it was
criminal to leave these women unprotected. Even if they thought
they were protected from the dragons whom they thought would harm
them. They should