Neptune's Children by Bowers Mary

Author:Bowers, Mary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19 – A Sortie from the Knight Errant

Dobbs usually slept like a little child, but something within him had been ignited by Neptune’s matchmaking, and he found it impossible to calm his mind. It rattled on with pictures and words and scenarios; it would not let him rest. When he heard a tapping on the window next to his cot, he responded immediately, and he wasn’t even surprised to see Venus standing outside looking in at him. It was meant to be.

He went to her, barefooted, barechested, wearing only the thin pajama bottoms he had borrowed from Sandy, because at the last minute he decided that sleeping in the nude just wasn’t right in a dormitory-type situation.

Reaching for Venus, he found their joining intensely natural. Inevitable. But before he could enfold her, she moved back and told him to get some shoes on, she needed to talk to him, and not here.

He seemed to understand, but Elizabeth was doubtful that he had the right idea.

“Let’s go down by the river,” he said before he left her, “get away from the compound entirely. I’ll take you to where I had my talk with Sandy this morning. The path is right next to us, between the men’s dorm and the farmhouse.”

Elizabeth tried to control herself. “I’ve just had a close encounter with a dead jellyfish, I’m wearing flip-flops, I just walked all the way across the quadrangle to get here, hoping all the way that I didn’t step on anything that would turn around and bite, and I’m not going back to get my combat boots on so I can kick frogs out of the way while we stroll on down to the riverbank. In fact, the nearest thing I have to boots is still in my car, and I’m not walking through the path to the parking lot, either. We’re going into the Hall. They don’t keep it locked at night.”

Willing to leap off a cliff for her at any time of the day, but especially at the magic hour of midnight, which was fast approaching, Dobbs complied wordlessly. Even when she’d mentioned a dead jellyfish he hadn’t interrupted, mostly because of her tone of voice. It implied that at the slightest provocation, she was going to start screaming.

Elizabeth waited for him impatiently in the dark, trying to get her thoughts together and keeping a sharp lookout for things crawling around her feet.

* * *

“You didn’t say whether or not I needed to put a shirt on too,” Dobbs said primly as he walked her to the Hall. He’d had enough time to feel hurt. After all, she was the one who had gotten him out of bed in the middle of the night. What was a guy supposed to think? Then when he reaches for her, she gets all frosty and tells him to put some shoes on. Real nice.

He’d also pulled on a dark tee shirt, feeling as if he needed to cover his dignity somehow.

Throwing out more mixed signals, Venus put her arm around him and apologized.

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