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hers, he whispered in a voice hoarse with rampant
desire, "Someone could come in here at any time. We should go back."
She
swayed in his arms as the sweet fog cleared from her mind. Holy stars!
What had she done? Her body continued to throb with the need for
immediate satisfaction, but her mind was jangling alarms. The moment he
released her to retrieve the bag of sweets he had dropped, Shara
hurried back the way they had come.
Gabriel smiled as he fell
in
behind her and quickened his own pace. After their rough start, he was
reassured to see her in as much of a hurry to seek privacy as he was.
He must not be as unappealing to her as she had led him to believe.
His
reassurance was abruptly shattered as she entered her sleeper and the
door slid closed before he could follow her inside.
"Shara?"
When she didn't respond, his tone changed to a demand. "Shara! Open
this door." It whooshed open again, but she stood blocking the doorway,
as if she could keep him from entering if he really wished to do so.
The sensuous chocoberry color of her eyes was marred by streaks of
angry yellow. "What's going on?"
She lifted her chin
defiantly.
"Maybe you should tell me. One minute we were talking, and the next,
you . . . you had your hands on me again."
"I what? I
distinctly
remember you being involved back there. If you want proof, I probably
still have impressions of your nails in my back. You were just as
prepared to couple as I was."
She spun away from him, hugging
herself against his words. "Couple? I hardly know you. Why would I want
to couple with you?"
Stepping
inside the sleeper, he waited for the door to close before replying.
"Know me? What does knowing me have to do with coupling? I've coupled
with females who don't even know my name."
"Employees of the
Indulgence Center are paid well to overlook their customers'
shortcomings. My gifts carry a price also, but it's nothing so simple
as signing over a number of credits. When I share pleasure with a man,
it will be because there's a mutual caring, a meeting of the minds as
well as the bodies. A relationship. You and I have nothing in common.
You must have done something to my mind to make me forget that so
easily. I should have expected as much from someone raised in Parson's
Colony."
He yanked her around to face him, fury tightening his
throat. "And I should have known better than to trust a Terran. How
dare you twist my confidence into a weapon against me? I told you I
have no power. Nothing! I can't even keep you from crawling inside my
brain without an artificial device. I'm un-talented, but still a
Noronian, which means I do not lie, and that's more than I can say for
you." He let go of her arm, moved to the door, and slammed his palm
against the control panel.
Before exiting, he turned to her
once
more. "You're right about one thing. We certainly don't have anything
in common. I am completely rational. Don't fret about giving away any
of your precious gifts. I wouldn't want to chance freezing to death."
A
moment after the door closed behind Gabriel, Shara slumped down onto
her bunk. She couldn't believe what she had just done. It had been
wrong to strike
out at him when it was herself she was furious with. All she wanted was
to avoid repeating old mistakes. Professor Gabriel Drumayne was another
man interested in her only for what she could do for him.
She
had
previously come to the conclusion that if she didn't couple with a man,
she wouldn't get emotionally involved, and thus, he couldn't cause her
pain. The ache in her chest was proof that she was wrong about that,
too.
What had come over her? She should never have let herself
get
carried away like that. She certainly knew better, and he would have no
way of knowing that she didn't share his uninhibited attitude toward
coupling. It hadn't been fair to him, but she couldn't help feeling as
she did. The sharing of one's body should have a meaning deeper than a
simple
desire, "Someone could come in here at any time. We should go back."
She
swayed in his arms as the sweet fog cleared from her mind. Holy stars!
What had she done? Her body continued to throb with the need for
immediate satisfaction, but her mind was jangling alarms. The moment he
released her to retrieve the bag of sweets he had dropped, Shara
hurried back the way they had come.
Gabriel smiled as he fell
in
behind her and quickened his own pace. After their rough start, he was
reassured to see her in as much of a hurry to seek privacy as he was.
He must not be as unappealing to her as she had led him to believe.
His
reassurance was abruptly shattered as she entered her sleeper and the
door slid closed before he could follow her inside.
"Shara?"
When she didn't respond, his tone changed to a demand. "Shara! Open
this door." It whooshed open again, but she stood blocking the doorway,
as if she could keep him from entering if he really wished to do so.
The sensuous chocoberry color of her eyes was marred by streaks of
angry yellow. "What's going on?"
She lifted her chin
defiantly.
"Maybe you should tell me. One minute we were talking, and the next,
you . . . you had your hands on me again."
"I what? I
distinctly
remember you being involved back there. If you want proof, I probably
still have impressions of your nails in my back. You were just as
prepared to couple as I was."
She spun away from him, hugging
herself against his words. "Couple? I hardly know you. Why would I want
to couple with you?"
Stepping
inside the sleeper, he waited for the door to close before replying.
"Know me? What does knowing me have to do with coupling? I've coupled
with females who don't even know my name."
"Employees of the
Indulgence Center are paid well to overlook their customers'
shortcomings. My gifts carry a price also, but it's nothing so simple
as signing over a number of credits. When I share pleasure with a man,
it will be because there's a mutual caring, a meeting of the minds as
well as the bodies. A relationship. You and I have nothing in common.
You must have done something to my mind to make me forget that so
easily. I should have expected as much from someone raised in Parson's
Colony."
He yanked her around to face him, fury tightening his
throat. "And I should have known better than to trust a Terran. How
dare you twist my confidence into a weapon against me? I told you I
have no power. Nothing! I can't even keep you from crawling inside my
brain without an artificial device. I'm un-talented, but still a
Noronian, which means I do not lie, and that's more than I can say for
you." He let go of her arm, moved to the door, and slammed his palm
against the control panel.
Before exiting, he turned to her
once
more. "You're right about one thing. We certainly don't have anything
in common. I am completely rational. Don't fret about giving away any
of your precious gifts. I wouldn't want to chance freezing to death."
A
moment after the door closed behind Gabriel, Shara slumped down onto
her bunk. She couldn't believe what she had just done. It had been
wrong to strike
out at him when it was herself she was furious with. All she wanted was
to avoid repeating old mistakes. Professor Gabriel Drumayne was another
man interested in her only for what she could do for him.
She
had
previously come to the conclusion that if she didn't couple with a man,
she wouldn't get emotionally involved, and thus, he couldn't cause her
pain. The ache in her chest was proof that she was wrong about that,
too.
What had come over her? She should never have let herself
get
carried away like that. She certainly knew better, and he would have no
way of knowing that she didn't share his uninhibited attitude toward
coupling. It hadn't been fair to him, but she couldn't help feeling as
she did. The sharing of one's body should have a meaning deeper than a
simple
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