Chapter 137

Billy stood up and pulled his car keys from his pocket. “I’ll go downtown right now and start hiring them! What time do you want them here?”

“That didn’t take long,” laughed Becky. “I don’t know about this. It would be pretty expensive to paint all of us.”

“I’ll pick up the bill,” replied Billy immediately. “If that’s your only objection, I’ll go hire a few artists right now.”

“Charlotte has to do it, too,” insisted Ashley. “How would you feel if she walked around with only a thin coat of paint concealing her charms?”

“I still haven’t heard any reasons to not go hire some artists,” retorted Billy.

“We need to include Paula, Diane, Cindy, and Julia in this,” suggested Steve as he looked over at the four women he mentioned and wiggled his eyebrows.

“You can forget that!” protested Paula. “Diane, Julia, and I are married. Our husbands would never stand for it.”

“I wouldn’t exactly say that,” interjected Will before taking a sip of his Corona. “