"The Sex Shifters" - читать интересную книгу автора (Manly D J)

"You could have said no," Sam reminded him, setting the controls as Tavish turned on the engine.

"I could have," he grinned.

Sam shook his head. "So is it Karen or Sarah?"

"SarahЕnoЕit's definitely Karen."

"It's probably Debbie," Sam strapped himself in.

"Wait a minute," Tavish paused. "Debbie. YeahЕhow did you know?"

"Lucky guess. You're due for a Debbie. Plus, you never get the name right."

Tavish shrugged, and prepared for take off.

Cassandra Burke listened to all this without comment, which surprised the hell out of Tavish. He was embellishing it just for her, but she didn't bite.

"Did she end up slapping you too?" Sam enquired, glancing over at Cassandra.

"Not yet, at least," Tavish grinned devilishly, "not on the face."

Sam shook his head, and they took off with a roar.

Cassandra grumbled something under her breath at that. It sounded like "disgusting."



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Rake Diamond waited patiently for the spacecraft to land. He checked his watch twice. They were right on time. He was glad because he had a busy day today. They had royal guests arriving from Galome, and everything had to be right.

As soon as the door of the spacecraft spun open, Rake Diamond crossed the platform, two of his rather useless security guards at his heels. He did keep the pretty boys though. They served their purpose. "Mr Lerue," he held out his hand.

"No, I'm Samuel Carter, that's Lerue," he hitched a thumb back at Tavish who strolled out of the craft a few seconds later.

Diamond's eyes left Samuel and settled on Tavish Lerue. Whoa. Over six feet of muscle. All male, and gorgeous to boot. Too bad he was a merc. He would have made a great pleasure dancer in the room of lust.

Tavish didn't much care for the way Rake Diamond was ogling him. He'd come across these guys before. They had a right to liveЕbut somewhere far away from him. "Mr. Diamond," he said, not bothering to shake his hand. "I'd like it if you could show us where we bunk, and then give us a run down so that we can get started right away."

"Well, he gets right to business, doesn't he boys?" Diamond said, glancing at the two big muscle men standing to his right.

They both nodded, glancing up in surprise to see the tall, athletic figure of Cassandra Burke suddenly appear on the landing.

"I'm Cassandra Burke," she said, walking over to shake Rake Diamonds hand.

He smiled at her. "Ms. Burke."