Chapter Seventeen
Lucinda
Wondering What Is Beneath Is Erotic; Seeing It Is s*x.
Toby and Helmut arrived early for the dress rehearsal, held at the Heavenly Space retirement village. Toby and Helmut were given a corner the size of a phone box, which made touching inevitable. In silence they set up the sound desk, working in sync. Toby saw the looks between Red and Helmut and huffed.
He was standing by the sound desk, lining up his glockenspiel hammers and whistles for the first scene. He was feeling fed up with the whole working-beside-his-mother’s-possible-boyfriend thing—the man who had brushed aside his help—and the last the thing he expected to see was her . . . looking as she did.
He had told his mother he wasn’t helping the panto for the pole dancing. He had brushed off his sist
