The Serpent's Shadow (2010)
The Serpent's Shadow
“Peter had forgotten his original intention of warning Maya about the mysterious deaths the moment she flung herself, sobbing, into his arms. When he’d seen her in the light from the hallway, dressed in her exotic sari with her hair down and her eyes as wide as a frightened deer‘s, the last thing he would have said to her, had he had time to think about what he was saying, was how beautiful she was. But the exclamation had been startled out of him, and it had resulted in this— He stroked her hai...r and said nothing as she wept and raged alternately, during which time he gathered the gist of what had happened to her at the hospital. He. didn’t know a great deal about women, but his instincts on this were that the best thing he could do for her right now was to listen. And meanwhile, he was beginning to have some glimmerings of what to do about this Simon Parkening.
What he wanted to do, of course, was to march over to the cad’s flat and punch him in the nose. Maya’s distress had awakened a number of very cavemanlike feelings that were not altogether unfamiliar to him—but he knew very well that what might pass for reasonable behavior on the deck of a ship would only lead to a great deal of trouble in this case.MoreLess
What he wanted to do, of course, was to march over to the cad’s flat and punch him in the nose. Maya’s distress had awakened a number of very cavemanlike feelings that were not altogether unfamiliar to him—but he knew very well that what might pass for reasonable behavior on the deck of a ship would only lead to a great deal of trouble in this case.MoreLess
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