"S. M. Stirling - Terminator 3 - T2 The Future War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stirling S. M)

to handle it. Sarah had raised him in the snap out of it! school of
mothering because she thought that was what the circumstances
demanded. But she knew from her own experience that what he
was feeling now wasn't something you could just snap yourself
out of. It made her feel helpless, and she hated that. Sometimes
it made her so angry she just wanted to shake him. Instinctively
Sarah knew that giving in to that impulse might just drive him
away completely.

As she loaded the basket with cuts of meat to take to the
smokehouse, she looked at him. He'd topped out at just under six
feet, and though he'd filled out some, his was a wiry build. At
least, it was compared to Dieter, who was as glorious a slab of
muscle as any woman could desire. John was strong, though. He
still lost to Dieter when they arm-wrestled, but not every time,
not even most of the time.

He wore his dark hair on the longer side, the bangs still
obscuring his brown eyes. The beard was the biggest difference.
She didn't think she'd ever get used to that. It was a full-faced
beard, but trimmed, not ZZ Top-style, thank God. She gave a
mental shrug. This was Alaska. Men wore beards. There'd even
been a few especially bitter days when she'd wished she could
grow one herself. Someday, she supposed, she'd get used to the
way he looked.

He looked up and caught her eye, raising a brow inquiringly.

"Just thinking," she said.

"About what?"

"The beard," she said, and walked away.
***

John watched her go, then went back to work.

Later he sent Dieter in for the solar shower he knew the big
man lusted for. Dieter hated hog butchering, despite being
raised in a little rural village in Austria, though he never
complained about it.

Well, I hate it, too. Every time, I swear I'm going to turn
vegetarian. But I just like meat too much!

He'd just about finished cleaning up the butchering site when
his mother came toward him holding a printout.

"Listen to this," she said, and began to read.