[ [ Something shutters very clearly in his expression as she leans in. Not warning, not menace -- closer to cold amusement, maybe, though it's hard to tell. Somehow he'd hoped she wouldn't resort to this coy amateurism. As a counterstrike it is crudely direct, and often effective -- but he's never cared for the underlying assumption that as a man, he's propelled by his lust and nothing else. Their torrid fling in the USA had been about mutual stress relief, killing time, without either of them surrendering their actual leverage of control. In this context, it would be something completely different. ]
[ And ineffective. Up close, his smile turns sharp-edged, a glint of the blade unsheathed and his eyes telegraphing his lack of reluctance to use it. (Is there a difference, in the end, between the lack of space between their bodies on a bed or if she's tied to a chair?) ]
[ His lips brush the soft shell of her ear. When he speaks, his soft rebuff is as unambiguous as her proposition. ]
If we went upstairs, you'd never get out of bed.
[ Or out alive. He'd kill her, no two ways about it. Whereas if she accompanies him to dinner -- if he can pry valuable information out of her -- it may prolong the length of her precariously short life. ]
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-04-21 01:30 am (UTC)[ And ineffective. Up close, his smile turns sharp-edged, a glint of the blade unsheathed and his eyes telegraphing his lack of reluctance to use it. (Is there a difference, in the end, between the lack of space between their bodies on a bed or if she's tied to a chair?) ]
[ His lips brush the soft shell of her ear. When he speaks, his soft rebuff is as unambiguous as her proposition. ]
If we went upstairs, you'd never get out of bed.
[ Or out alive. He'd kill her, no two ways about it. Whereas if she accompanies him to dinner -- if he can pry valuable information out of her -- it may prolong the length of her precariously short life. ]