Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

she said, moving around the chair and toward him. "I like toenjoy my work but you’ve been pushing me away. Don't thehormone levels in your system work?""Well, it depends on how they're set on my med panel, butaround you it feels like my med panel's been hacked." Hepulled it up and looked at it. It was still set on thirty percentwhere he always had it. If it had been hacked he would haveprobably proposed marriage to her already. He set hishormone level down to twenty and closed the panel.As he closed the panel, she turned around and leaned backon him and drew his hands around her. "So what is it youwant to know?" she asked, looking back over her shoulder athim."How you adjusted your personification this way. I think Iunderstand why, to make me a helpless adolescent in yourhands." He wanted to get his hands off her, but she held tight.He was afraid to try harder in case the bronze would comeback. He was very conscious of how much better she felt thanbronze, very conscious of every curve of her body that waspressed against him and very conscious of how long he hadlet himself go without female companionship."Oh you could let go if you want, I won't use any magic atall to keep your hands here," she said and let go of his."You're using some kind of magic because my hands arestill there." Kelvin could imagine it felt good to havesomeone else carry some of the weight that rested on hisforearms, her clothing wasn’t helping.347