Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: #genre
ISBN: 9780553582895
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2000-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

Looking at him again, she said, "You've got nice eyes."

"I doc"

"Honest eyes."

"Are they? Used to have nice hair too. All shaved off now. I was butchered."

"Barbered. Just one small spot."

"Barbered and then butchered. What are you doing out here in the desert?"

She stared at him a while, then looked away without answering.

He wouldn't let her off that easily. "What are you doing out here? I'll just keep asking until the repetition drives you insane.

What are you doing out here?"

"Saving your ass."

"Tricky. I mean, what were you doing here in the first place?"

"Looking for you."

"Why?" he wondered.

"Because you've been looking for me."

"But how'd you find me, for God's sake?"

"Ouija board."

"I don't think I can believe anything you say."

"You're right. It was Tarot cards."

"Whore we running from?"

She shrugged. The desert engaged her attention again. At last she said, "History, I guess."

"There you go, trying to confuse me again."

"Specifically, the cockroach."

"We're running from a cockroach?"

"That's what I call him, 'cause it infuriates him."

His gaze rolled from Valerie to the tarp that hung ten feet above them.

"Why the roop."

"Blends with the terrain. It's a heat-dispersing fabric too, so we won't show up strong on any infrared look-down."

"Look-down?"

"Eyes in the sky."

"God? "

"No, the cockroach."

"The cockroach has eyes in the sky?"

"He and his people, yeah."

Spencer thought about that. Finally he said, "I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming."

"Some days," she said, "neither am I."

In the black-and-white world, the sky seethed with eyes, and a great white owl flew overhead, casting a moonshadow in the shape of an angel.

Eve's desire was insatiable, and her energy was inexhaustible, as though each protracted bout of ecstasy electrified rather than enervated her.

At the end of an hour, she seemed more vital than ever, more beautiful, aglow.

Before Roy's adoring eyes, her incredible body seemed to be sculpted and pumped up by her ceaseless flexing-contracting-flexing, by her writhing-thrashing-thrusting, just as a long session of lifting weights pumped up a bodybuilder. After years of exploring all the ways she could satisfy herself, she enjoyed a flexibility that Roy judged to be somewhere between that of a gold-medal Olympic gymnast and a carnival contortionist, combined with the endurance of an Alaskan dogsled team.

There was no doubt whatsoever that a session in bed with herself provided a thorough workout for every muscle from her radiant head to her cute toes.

Regardless of the astounding knots into which she tied herself, regardless of the bizarre intimacies she took with herself, she never looked at all grotesque or absurd, but unfailingly beautiful, from any angle, in even the most unlikely acts. She was always milk and honey on that black rubber, peaches and cream, flowing and smooth, the most desirable creature ever to grace the earth.

Halfway through the second hour, Roy was convinced that sixty percent of this angel's features-body and face overall-were perfect by even the most stringent standards. Another thirty-five percent of her was not perfect but so close to perfect as to break his heart, and only five percent was plain.

Nothing about her-no slightest line or concavity or convexity-was ugly.

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