Doris O'Connor Man Dro

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.Completely sozzled, she had finally picked up the phone and called Jerry.A rather breathless Jerry had answered on the fifth try.“This had better be good, girl.I’m somewhat busy here, as you should be.Why aren’t you feeling up your new man friend?”A throaty woman’s laugh could be heard in the background, and Beth rolled her eyes.“He’s not my man friend, as you well know, and besides, he’s run out on me.”“He’s done what?”Beth winced, recalling the shriek down the phone that had caused her to hold the receiver away from her ear.“Why the fuck would he do that? That’s Brian’s pride and joy.You’ve better not broken him, girl.He’d never forgive me for persuading him to let you borrow Elliot.”“No, I haven’t broken him, don’t be ridiculous, but I seem to have hurt his feelings, and that’s impossible, so…err…he’s probably malfunctioning or sommat.”There had been an ominous pause at the other end.“Yes, well, about that.Now, don’t freak, but Elliot, he’s, well, he’s not like the others.He’s got an emotion chip, you see.”“He’s got a what?”“An emotion chip.Like I said, he’s Brian’s original baby, and I know he’s been perfecting this emotions thing for a while, and I know what you’re like.You can’t just go and fuck like the rest of us.You’ve always got to get attached, so Elliot was the perfect choice for you.Unlike the usual assholes you pick, he will never hurt you.Beth, say something? Are you still there? Beth?”Beth had, in fact, hung up on her and sought oblivion in the bottom of the wine bottle until she’d passed out.Which had seemed a great plan at the time, but not so much now at—she squinted at her alarm clock—three a.m.And what was more, there was someone in her flat.Her heart beat in tune to the drums in her head, and she stuffed her fist in her mouth to stop herself from screeching.The sound of running water and the clink of crockery gave her pause for thought.Was her burglar doing the washing up?Something crashed and broke, and there was a muffled curse, delivered by a very familiar deep voice.Elliot.Of course it was Elliot.Who else would get past her extra secure locks without a key but her very own thinking and feeling Man-Droid.Shit.She had hurt his feelings.Beth scrambled out of bed, and ignoring the way the floor seemed to move toward her, she put one step in front of the other until she reached her little kitchen unit.A scowling and very wet Elliot was indeed sorting the leftover debris from their dinner.He must have been caught in the rain she saw pelting her kitchen window, because his hair stuck to his forehead and his shirt clung to his skin, accentuating the play of muscles in his shoulders and back every time he moved.Beth swallowed hard when he swung round and quietly regarded her.In the blink of an eye, he approached her with a glass of water and two painkillers, and she wordlessly accepted the proffered lifeline.The cool water lubricated her sandpaper throat enough for her to utter the apology she knew she owed him.“I’m sorry.I didn’t mean what I said.”“Yes you did.” He threw her a glance and continued tidying.“Okay, maybe I did, but I never would have said those things had I known I would hurt your feelings.I truly am sorry for that.I sounded like a cold-hearted bitch.It’s just…”She forgot what she was going to say when he shrugged out of his shirt in front of her.With his shirt off there was no barrier to his impressive physique, and Beth sat down with a thump.He was perfection, from the lightly tanned skin to the broad shoulders, pectorals to die for, dusted with a smattering of black hair that led down toward ultra-defined abs Adonis himself would have been envious of.She followed that trail of hair down to his belt buckle and the erection he was once again sporting and unsuccessfully trying to hide with his abandoned shirt.When she finally managed to tear her gaze away from the bulge in his jeans, he looked almost embarrassed.“Don’t read anything into that.I seem to be incapable of controlling my cock when you’re around.Trust me, that never happened before.”“It hasn’t?”“No, it hasn’t.It only happens around you, and I have no fucking clue what to do about it.”Beth couldn’t help it.She giggled.“This isn’t funny.” He scowled at her some more, but eventually his lips, too, twitched and formed a lopsided smile.Lord he looked way too edible when he did that.“It is, you know.This whole situation is too absurd to not be funny.”“Hmm, you might have a point there.Had I known what Brian’s adjustments would do, I’d never have agreed to them [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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