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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
louisev:
oh and who could forget Ennis making his first pass? Complete with patented Jack hand to cock move?
“Feels better.” Ellery slid his hand up Ennis’s arm to the elbow and then looked at him once more. “Thank you, Ennis.”
Ennis moved, then, the handful of inches between his face and Ellery’s, until he could feel the warmth of Ellery’s breath against his cheek, shifted slightly until their cheeks brushed, and his hand slid down the outside of Ellery’s shirt, seeking his hand, finding it half open against his knee, and grasped it, clamping his own hand hard and pulling it, as though testing the willingness of the man who owned it, to come to him, pulling it into the hard lump now straining against his fly.
“I do... want it,” Ennis said, his voice a harsh, barely heard whisper.
And in answer, Ellery moved his lips against his cheek and toward his ear. “All right. Not here. We’ll go ta my house.” Ennis nodded, wordless now, the die cast, his willingness to fight against himself unwound by the whispered pact of their new intimacy. Ellery brushed his knuckles meaningfully against Ennis’s trapped erection and then pulled back, untangling his hand from that hard grip, letting his lips brush once more against Ennis’s cheek before he spoke, somewhat more audibly. “Let’s make sure we finish lookin here before we give up. Then we got all night. Got to put in a night’s work. The big picture.”
“Right,” Ennis said aloud, his voice a trembling sigh, and he spread his hands out on his knees to try to catch his breath, not daring to look up now that he had spoken his desire to a man in the light of day.
Taking Chances, Chapter 22
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: scudder on August 01, 2006, 01:45:05 pm ---Fred, you got to me with your quotes. I am with you one hundred percent.
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Fred has a way of doing that to me too, scudder.
Louise, that first pass in the rose hotel is a classic.
An other great one from Taking Chances, chapter 16:
'Ellery parked across from the bar and turned off the ignition, looking at Ennis carefully, quietly, as if sizing him up. Ennis was still gripping his hat, his silence loud, roaring in his own ears. Finally, as if tearing the words from somewhere deep in his guts he looked up at the man looking at him and said, in a low, tortured voice,
“What da you want from me?” And Ellery put his big, wide hand down over Ennis’s clutching hands, closing it slowly.
“Nothin you don’t want, Ennis. First – to get this shit with this slug Wilson straightened. And if there is anything more, if its friends or a drink in the bar or somethin else that is up to you. I ain’t no teenager, Ennis. I won’t put hands on ya. But you know where I stand, and if its what you want then its fine with me, whatever it is. No need ta be scared I’m gonna do nothin. I got a big mouth and maybe I am just a little to open flirtin an all that with somebody like you, but that’s just how I am with someone I feel good around. And that’s all it’ll be if that is all you want. But you don’t need to tear outta here because yer afraid I’m gonna put hands on ya because I won’t. Fair enough?”
pastorfred:
Yet another of my favorite moments from A Second Chance, Chapter 36:
(Ellery has just had the second nightmare about Beagle. Ennis wakes him up.)
He stirred, feeling the abrading touch of a large thumb against his cheek. “Darlin, roll over darlin, ya got ta get up an put on yer brace, wake up.” His eyes fluttered open and he blinked in the gloom. It was full dark, light slanting in from the hallway casting the naked man crouching over him in deep shadow.
“Ennis?”
“Yeah, ya passed out. I guess ya got off good. Come on darlin, can’t have ya sleepin like this or you’ll be hurtin tomorrow.”
I love this moment because Ennis is showing such loving care for Ellery, just when he needs it most. It exemplifies the reason I am as happy for Ellery to have Ennis as for Ennis to have Ellery.
scudder:
--- Quote from: pastorfred on August 01, 2006, 03:45:40 pm ---Yet another of my favorite moments from A Second Chance, Chapter 36:
(Ellery has just had the second nightmare about Beagle. Ennis wakes him up.)
He stirred, feeling the abrading touch of a large thumb against his cheek. “Darlin, roll over darlin, ya got ta get up an put on yer brace, wake up.” His eyes fluttered open and he blinked in the gloom. It was full dark, light slanting in from the hallway casting the naked man crouching over him in deep shadow.
“Ennis?”
“Yeah, ya passed out. I guess ya got off good. Come on darlin, can’t have ya sleepin like this or you’ll be hurtin tomorrow.”
I love this moment because Ennis is showing such loving care for Ellery, just when he needs it most. It exemplifies the reason I am as happy for Ellery to have Ennis as for Ennis to have Ellery.
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You've done it again, Fred. I think I will just say right now, whatever Pastor Fred says is what I say too! Saves me the trouble of looking things up.
pastorfred:
--- Quote from: scudder on August 01, 2006, 04:50:37 pm ---You've done it again, Fred. I think I will just say right now, whatever Pastor Fred says is what I say too! Saves me the trouble of looking things up.
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Thanks, Scudder!
You've just made my day, twice today. ;)
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