Gateway To Xanadu by Green Sharon

Author:Green, Sharon [Green, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780886770891
Google: SMe1FG5_qtQC
Amazon: 0886770890
Barnesnoble: 0886770890
Goodreads: 511862
Publisher: DAW
Published: 1985-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

“She’s too young to have a slave assigned to her,” Greg came back with more calm than Val was showing. “A slave would take advantage of her lack of experience, as you know since the matter was explained to you. I’ll see that she has just as good a time as you do, which is, after all, the reason she’s here and one of the reasons I am. You don’t have any objections to that, do you, Mr. Carter?”

“Of course he has no objections,” John Little interrupted, shoving his slave out of the way as he climbed hastily to his feet. “There’s no reason for you to object, Val, so tell the man you don’t mind.”

“I didn’t bring her here to be spread by every heavy breather to come by,” Val muttered, but he was clearly backing down in the face of Little’s obvious but unexplained fear. He had looked away from Greg Rich’s penetrating gaze as though he were afraid of the Management rep, and to my critical eye he hadn’t done it as convincingly as he should have. I could see he hadn’t wanted to back down, but happily Greg Rich saw nothing but the end result.

“What did you bring her here for, Mr. Carter?” he asked very softly with only a hint of triumph in his eyes, the picture of a man who was used to being deferred to. “If you didn’t expect her to be given pleasure, what did you expect?”

“That’s my business,” Val muttered, glancing at him while ignoring Little’s very low words of urging.

“She’s my niece, and what I do with her is my business.”

“Only under certain conditions, Mr. Carter,” Greg Rich answered as he put a hand in the middle of my back. “The Management tends to be rather strict about the actions of their guests under all other conditions. Ask your friend Mr. Little to explain what I mean-before you run into trouble you weren’t expecting. I wish you an enjoyable evening.”

The hand in my back then moved me out of confrontation position before anything else could be said, the body attached to the arm following along beside me as we headed toward the exit, stage left. The thought was a stranger one than usual for me, but that’s exactly how I felt, as though I were wandering around a stage after having missed all my cues. I now knew what Val had been trying to tell me with the odd routine he’d started, but I didn’t know what to make of it. The Management didn’t want me using their slaves was the message, probably given to Val while I was being shown the sunset, but the real reason behind the decision was a mystery. And what had Little been whispering to Val, and why had Radman’s lieutenant been so afraid’? And now that Val had put himself close to the top of Greg’s shit list because of the need to pass on information to me, how was I going to get

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