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Contents (90)
  1. Benna Murcatto Saves a Life
  2. I
  3. TALINS
  4. Land of Opportunity
  5. The Bone-Thief
  6. Fish out of Water
  7. Six and One
  8. Bloody Instructions
  9. II
  10. WESTPORT
  11. Poison
  12. Science and Magic
  13. The Safest Place in the World
  14. Evil Friends
  15. Two Twos
  16. Plans and Accidents
  17. Repaid in Full
  18. III
  19. SIPANI
  20. Fogs and Whispers
  21. The Arts of Persuasion
  22. The Life of the Drinker
  23. Left Out
  24. A Few Bad Men
  25. The Peacemakers
  26. Cooking up Trouble
  27. Sex and Death
  28. That’s Entertainment
  29. What Happened
  30. IV
  31. VISSERINE
  32. Vengeance, Then
  33. Downwards
  34. Rats in a Sack
  35. The Forlorn Hope
  36. Mercy and Cowardice
  37. The Odd Couple
  38. Darkness
  39. The Connoisseur
  40. Vile Jelly
  41. Other People’s Scores
  42. The Fencing Master
  43. V
  44. PURANTI
  45. Sixes
  46. The Eye-Maker
  47. Prince of Prudence
  48. Neither Rich nor Poor
  49. Heroic Efforts, New Beginnings
  50. The Traitor
  51. King of Poisons
  52. No Worse
  53. Harvest Time
  54. The Old New Captain General
  55. VI
  56. OSPRIA
  57. His Plan of Attack
  58. Politics
  59. No More Delays
  60. All Business
  61. The Fate of Styria
  62. To the Victors…
  63. So Much for Nothing
  64. Shifting Sands
  65. VII
  66. TALINS
  67. Return of the Native
  68. The Lion’s Skin
  69. Preparation
  70. Rules of War
  71. One Nation
  72. All Dust
  73. The Inevitable
  74. Thus the Whirligig…
  75. Seeds
  76. All Change
  77. Happy Endings
  78. Acknowledgments
  79. extras
  80. meet the author
  81. interview
  82. introducing
  83. By Joe Abercrombie
  84. Praise for Best Served Cold
  85. Praise for The Heroes
  86. Praise for The Blade Itself
  87. Praise for Before They Are Hanged
  88. Praise for Last Argument of Kings
  89. Contents
  90. Copyright

He wriggled eagerly free of them, got them tangled around his ankles. “Shit, damn, bastard—Ah!” He finally kicked them off and she shoved him down onto his back, clambered on top of him, one of his hands sliding up her thigh, wet fingers working between her legs. She stayed there a while, crouched over him, growling in his face and feeling his breath coming quick back at her, grinding her hips against his hand, feeling his prick rubbing up against the inside of her thigh—

“Ah, wait!” He wriggled away, sitting up, winced as he fiddled with the skin at the end of his cock. “Got it. Go!”

“I’ll tell you when to go.” She worked her way forwards on her knees, finding the spot and then nudging her cunt against him softly, gently, not in and not out, halfway between.

“Oh.” He wriggled his way up onto his elbows, straining vainly up against her.

“Ah.” She leaned down over him, her hair tickling his face, and he smiled, snapped his teeth at it.

“Oh-urgh.” She pushed her thumb into his mouth, dragged his head sideways and he sucked at it, bit at it, catching her wrist, licking at her hand, then her chin, then her tongue.

“Ah.” She started to push down on him, smiling herself, grunting in her throat and him grunting back at her.

“Oh.”

She had the root of his cock in one hand, rubbing herself against the end of it, not in and not out, always halfway between. She had the other round the back of Shivers’ head, holding his face against her tits while he gathered them up, squeezed them, bit at them.

Her fingers worked under his jaw, thumb-tip sliding ever so gently onto his ruined cheek, tickling, teasing, scratching. He felt a sudden stab of fury, snatched hold of her wrist, hard, twisted it round, twisted her off him and onto her knees, twisted her arm behind her, face pushed down into the sheet, making her gasp.

He was grunting something in Northern and even he didn’t know what. He felt a burning need to hurt her. Hurt himself. He tangled his free hand in her hair and shoved her head hard against the wall, growling and whimpering at her from behind while she groaned, gasped, mouth wide open, hair across her face fluttering with her breath. He still had her arm twisted behind her and her hand curled round, gripping his wrist hard while he gripped hers, dragging him down over her.

Uh, uh, their mindless grunting. Creak, creak, the bed moaning along with them. Squelch, squelch, his skin slapping hard against her arse.

Monza worked her hips against him a few more times, and with each one he gave a little hoot, head back, veins standing from his stretched-out neck. With each one she gave a snarl through gritted teeth, muscles all clenched aching tight, then slowly going soft. She stayed there for a moment, hunched over, limp as wet leaves, hard breath catching in the back of her throat. She winced and he shivered as she ground herself against him one last time. Then she slid off, gathered up a handful of sheet and wiped herself on it.