"Joy, Dara - High 02 - High Intensity" - читать интересную книгу автора (Joy Dara)

A girl knew what to pack when she traveled, and stunning, sensual male was at the top of the list.
She narrowed her eyes at him.
Damn. Not the violet slits! Tyber inwardly steeled himself. The violet slits were always trouble. He waited patiently for the other foot to fall. She was up to something.
"What about our investigation of the ghost on Marthas Vineyard?"
Now Tybers blues narrowed to icy sparks. The adversaries faced each other like two cutthroats on the bounding main. He called her bluff across the sea of food. "What about it?"
She hitched her shoulders preparing to fire at will. "Well, what's it going to be, Captain?"
He slowly gazed up at the ceiling, examining the painted cloud formations. He watched the wind catch at the billowing curtainsЧwhich began to look like sails. A pulse ticked in his maurader's jaw as he weighed the advantages.
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"Very well. We'll investigate the 'ghost' and you'll be my wench ... ah, wife." He raised his brows at her in challenge.
Zanita s eyes gleamed in satisfaction. "For five days."
"Well see/With those ominous words, he lifted his goblet of milk, saluted her with it, and chugged it down. Zanita acknowledged the agreement by ramming her steak slice with her fork. It wasn't easy living with a pirate, but she was learning how to deal with him when he set a course to Kooksville. Temporary marriage. She hid her smile by taking a big bite of meat. Seemed apropos.
lyber rolled his red pickup truck to a stop in front of the iron gates that barred his Victorian mansion from the overly inquisitive.
According to the clock, they were now married.
She frowned. How had she let him talk her into this?
The sign on the gate read "My Father's Mansion."
Zanita remembered the first time she had ridden up to these gates, the distinct impression she'd had that her life was about to change forever. And it had.
She had been invited by Dr. Evans to what she had thought was a pool party. Tyberius Augustus
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Evans was a renowned recluse, an eccentric genius who valued his privacy above all else.
Back then, she had been interested in obtaining an interview with the elusive physicist.
Back then, he had been interested strictly in her.
She had soon found out that the "pool party" was in actuality a private party for two engineered by the playful Doctor. Not that she had minded.
She never did get the interview.
But she did get the Doctor. Since that very first night, he had taken her into his world.
Tyber rolled down the window and pressed the button under the intercom panel by the gate.
"Did you leave the remote in the house, Tyber?"
"Nope. You might say this is an Easter egg in the Evans video game of life."
"An Easter egg? What does that have to do withЧ"
His features took on a mysterious, gleeful cast. "Never mind, baby. Just want to keep that old scalawag on his toes."
Static burst through the grill along with a squawk. A raspy voice fraught with irritation boomed through the intercom. "Blast and damnation!"
Zanita's lips curled. They were the exact same words Blooey had used the first time she had pressed that button.
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"Who be ye, friend or foe? And ye better be friend for ye pulled me away from swabbing the kitchen decks and now that rapscallion Ham-bone is skidding across the floor like a bloody ice dancer! Speak up, I say, or I'll blast ye where ye stand!"
Tyber chuckled. Blooey, his all-around "man," gave idiosyncrasy a whole new definition.
"Stand to, sailor," Tyber's deep voice drawled. "We're coming aboard."
"Blast, Captain! I knows ye got that thigga-jig what opens the plank!"
"Of course."
"Then why did ye go bothering me?" the voice boomed, getting louder as it reached the end.
"Because I could." Tyber grinned outright.
A snort came over the intercom. "That ye can. C'mon wit ye then."
The gate squeaked open.
Zanita shook her head. She often wondered who was nuttierЧthe two eccentrics she lived with or herself for enjoying them so.
Tyber pulled through the gates.
A topiary dragon winked at them as they rolled over the cobblestone drive that snaked through the woods. The dragon was followed by other mythological creatures, all ensconced in the tree-lined glade that opened before them. Gnomes, winged cats, dragons galore, a three-
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headed beastie, and a mysterious wizard who seemed to be presiding over them all.