Contents (90)
- Benna Murcatto Saves a Life
- I
- TALINS
- Land of Opportunity
- The Bone-Thief
- Fish out of Water
- Six and One
- Bloody Instructions
- II
- WESTPORT
- Poison
- Science and Magic
- The Safest Place in the World
- Evil Friends
- Two Twos
- Plans and Accidents
- Repaid in Full
- III
- SIPANI
- Fogs and Whispers
- The Arts of Persuasion
- The Life of the Drinker
- Left Out
- A Few Bad Men
- The Peacemakers
- Cooking up Trouble
- Sex and Death
- That’s Entertainment
- What Happened
- IV
- VISSERINE
- Vengeance, Then
- Downwards
- Rats in a Sack
- The Forlorn Hope
- Mercy and Cowardice
- The Odd Couple
- Darkness
- The Connoisseur
- Vile Jelly
- Other People’s Scores
- The Fencing Master
- V
- PURANTI
- Sixes
- The Eye-Maker
- Prince of Prudence
- Neither Rich nor Poor
- Heroic Efforts, New Beginnings
- The Traitor
- King of Poisons
- No Worse
- Harvest Time
- The Old New Captain General
- VI
- OSPRIA
- His Plan of Attack
- Politics
- No More Delays
- All Business
- The Fate of Styria
- To the Victors…
- So Much for Nothing
- Shifting Sands
- VII
- TALINS
- Return of the Native
- The Lion’s Skin
- Preparation
- Rules of War
- One Nation
- All Dust
- The Inevitable
- Thus the Whirligig…
- Seeds
- All Change
- Happy Endings
- Acknowledgments
- extras
- meet the author
- interview
- introducing
- By Joe Abercrombie
- Praise for Best Served Cold
- Praise for The Heroes
- Praise for The Blade Itself
- Praise for Before They Are Hanged
- Praise for Last Argument of Kings
- Contents
- 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.