"Sharon Green - Terrillian 4 - Warrior Challenged" - читать интересную книгу автора (Green Sharon)

"A doing which I truly regret," Tammad said with a sigh, accepted-guilt now
flowing through his mind. "To give pain to one attempting to aid you is not an
action of honor, even should that action be involuntary, as mine was. I
continue to have no understanding as to why it should have occurred."

"That's because you can't see yourself from the outside," I said, immediately
soothing the ache I could feel in him as I pushed the skirt of my gown aside
so I could crawl to him. "Your entire life has been aimed at being better than
the other men around you, toward making yourself their leader. A leader
dominates, always, and that's what you were doing to Len when he tried to
teach you. He can do something you can't, but you weren't about to allow that
to keep you from being denday over him. Len isn't strong enough to block your

output without shielding, and if he shields he can't teach you. If he doesn't
shield-well, he ends up with the kind of headache he did end up with. He knows
you weren't doing it on purpose, but he also knows that doesn't make any
difference. He doesn't have the strength to fend you off and teach you at the
same time, so you're stuck with me."

"A wenda who does indeed have the necessary strength," he murmured, putting
those big hands to my sides to pull me down closer to him. "For teaching as
well as other, more pleasurable pursuits."

"Indeed, hamak," I murmured in Rimilian, Tammad's language, putting my hands
to his face. "This wenda shall ever have strength for her beloved, for he is
her sadendrak, the one who gives meaning to her life in all things. Perhaps a
short rest would now be advisable, to conserve the strength of one who learns,
for other, more pleasurable pursuits."

I leaned down to put my lips on his, feeling again that I would never get
enough of him no matter what, and he wasted no time putting his hand behind my
head and returning the kiss. I could feel the growl of desire beginning in
him, just as it usually did when he looked at me or put his hands on me, but
then the heavy calm swirled into his mind, the calm he used as both a shield
and a control over his own emotions. He took full pleasure out of the kiss we
shared, but when it was over he simply lifted me away from his chest.

"As this one must learn, best would be that we continue with the lessons," he
said, his light eyes showing the calm behind them, his mind firmly made up.
"As I must depart soon to join the Chamd Rellis for a meal, we must leave
other things for another time. For what reason were you displeased with my
efforts?"

"If you had made the effort, I wouldn't be displeased," I muttered, staring at
him darkly from where I sat on the carpeting, hating the way he could ignore
me as I'd never been able to ignore him. "Does Rellis mean more to you than I
do?"

"The Chamd Rellis is our host, wenda," he answered gently with only the hint