(eng) Mack Reynolds - Lagrange 03 by Lagrange Five

Author:Lagrange Five [Five, Lagrange]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

When Rex Bader awoke in the morning, it was to find Susie's dark hair aswirl on the pillow next to him. She was lying on her back, the bedsheet pulled up around her neck so that only her head showed, including one of the perfect coral ears and the classical nose. He took her in, wondering how such a beautiful woman could so project herself, during working hours, that she looked positively plain. How she could do it, and why.

She opened her eye and said accusingly, "Who do you think you're looking at, my good man?"

Rex said, "How did I get so lucky?"

Susie said, "I'm a sucker for men with sad eyes."

He grinned at her. "I'll practice looking like a bas-sett hound."

She took him in contemplatively. "You know, you're not so bad for a man of forty."

"I was just bragging last night. This morning my back aches, as a result."

"You're much too modest, my dear. Have you ever made love in free-fall?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"Sex in free-fall. There's nothing like it."

He closed his eyes in rejection. "Good God."

She laughed mockingly. "Actually, the Floating Island Hotel has a one-tenth gravity. It's up quite near the axis. Real fun. Nothing like it, Earth-side."

"I'd think not."

She said wickedly, "When this is all over, we'll have to go up for a few days."

"If it's ever all over," he said glumly.

She suddenly became brisk, threw back the sheet and swung her legs to the floor. She was wearing her shorty nightgown. He thought that he had taken it off the night before. It was so transparent, he could see her black thatch of pubic hair, nestled between her good legs.

She said, crisply, "I'll go on into the bathroom first."

Rex said, 'Til go back to my own room. You know, I forgot to tell you why I came to see you last night."

She looked back at him. "Forgot? Like hell you did. What are you talking about? You mean, you didn't come to seduce me? That I seduced you instead?"

"Seduced? It was more like rape."

"Why, you cad."

Rex said, "Seriously, I came here to tell you that my luggage had been searched. Nothing taken, but I could tell. It had been searched."

She scowled her puzzlement and said, "But what could anyone have been looking for?"

He shook his head. "There's nothing in it that would tell anybody anything."

She walked over to the door of the bathroom, still scowling. "I'll see you for breakfast, darling," she told him.

Rex got up, found his clothes and, not bothering about his nakedness, carried them back with him to his own room. There was an order box there, similar to the one in his mini-apartment Earth-side. He had no trouble figuring out how to dial for a new shirt, new undershorts and socks. He took the things he had worn the day before and threw them into the disposal chute in the bathroom. His expense account was unlimited. Besides, he had read somewhere that in the Islands they didn't resort to laundry. With

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