![]() ![]() The men loomed behind them or clutched them in muscular arms, bending the women's bodies backward so that their breasts pointed up. The women on these book covers seemed to have a lot of trouble keeping their clothes on. The book rack alcove was normally deserted, but even so, Lily spun the rack self-consciously, retreating behind it so that she was hidden from view. Lily normally bypassed that rack but today she paused, drawn in by The Castle of Blood, on which the blonde's red gown seemed about to slip off her substantial bosom, nipples straining against the thin fabric. One was full of thrillers with lurid covers depicting scantily clad women in the embrace of swarthy men. ![]() There were several rotating racks of them in a sheltered alcove beyond the sanitary napkin aisle. She had soon discovered that Thrifty had another advantage over the Chinatown pharmacy: it had a very good selection of paperback novels. Thrifty was just outside the neighborhood, so her friends didn't usually go there. She had ducked in to buy a box of Kotex, because she hadn't wanted to get them at the pharmacy in Chinatown, where she'd risk running into people she knew. The first time Lily had gone to Thrifty had been sometime last year. ![]()
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