"Sharon Green - Diana Santee 2 - Gateway To Xanadu" - читать интересную книгу автора (Green Sharon)
"I've got a better idea," I said with sudden inspiration, laughing in delight and nearly clapping my hands.
"Instead of me getting back into clothes, why don't you get out of yours? Then we'll both be naked, and
you won't be bothered anymore. Come on, Val, do it!"
I was still enthusiastic as I went to my couch to put my coffee down, and by the time I turned back to
him, Val was on his feet. Looking at him, it wasn't hard guessing why he'd stayed seated so long; I was
considered big for a woman, but Val was big for a man. You couldn't quite make two of me out of him,
but if you tried you wouldn't be short by all that much. He'd known exactly how menacing he'd look to
the poor little female if he was upright, but at that point he was beyond considerations of that sort. He
couldn't possibly accept what I'd just suggested, not and keep his sanity along with his word; he had to
start being firm, and - those black eyes said he was more than ready.
"Stop dancing around like that!" he growled, coming toward me where I stood between the two couches.
"You're acting as if you want to be attacked, and I'm just about ready to oblige you! Get back into those
clothes, or I'll . . ."
At that point he made the mistake of reaching for my left arm with his right hand, just as I knew he
would. He'd done the same thing once before, reaching out to grab me in anger, but that lesson hadn't
stayed with him any more than the other one had. As his hand closed around my arm just above a wrist I
stepped toward him instead of away, turned my hand palm upward, and moved even closer. I slipped my
left hand out of the forced looseness of his grip, continued to turn his hand to the left with the added
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assistance of the back of my left hand fingers pushing against the trapped fingers of his right hand, and
simultaneously stepped back and twisted around. With a squawk of astonishment and some small
amount of pain, the great big dangerous hunter went down flat on his back, totally helpless. Before Val
knew what was happening, he had hit the carpeted deck hard, and lay there with my bare heel on his
throat.
"Or you'll what?" I asked very mildly, looking down at him where he twisted a little in an attempt to
ease the pressure on his arm and shoulder, his expression totally disbelieving. "The last time it was
partially Bellna, but this time it's all me, which should explain why you're not hurting as much as you
did then. If I shift my weight onto my heel you're a goner, friend, or I could simply kick you hard
enough in the side of the head to put your lights out for a while. As I said earlier, I forgot you were here;
that doesn't equate with deliberately forgetting out of desperate fear of you. If you're smart, you'll start
considering being afraid of me. Despite many opinions to the contrary, it is possible to rape a man, and I
know how. And I haven't given my word not to."
I turned him loose then, taking my heel away from his throat so that I could step over him on the way to
my couch. I sat down and got a cigarette out of the couch-arm dispenser and lit up, then picked up my
coffee mug to sip at it, only then noticing that Val was still on the deck. When he saw my eyes on him
he sat up slowly, rubbing at his right arm with his left hand, a strange expression in his deep black eyes.
"I don't think I've ever been told a woman wasn't afraid:. of me with quite that much conviction before,"
he muttered, raising his knees so that he could hang his forearms on there. "I assume I'm to take it that if
I do something you don't like, you'll let me know about it. Do you think you can catch me with that sort
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