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I grabbed him by the shoulder and whirled him around. Sputtering, he fel back a couple of steps. Towering over him, I leaned down to stare him in the eyes.
"How dare you come into our home and assault one of our guests! You looking for trouble? I hope so, because, dude, you found it. You have ten seconds to hit the door before I use you as a battering ram. Get out before I cal the cops and have you arrested for trespassing."
He had more bal s than I gave him credit for. Before I realized what he was doing, he spit in my face. "Bitch. Freaks--al of you are freaks. You drive men wild and then use them to take over our society! I'l show you just who runs this society--men do. Earthborn men! "
Bingo. I glanced at his pants. The man's hard-on was flashing like a tent pole on opening day at the circus. Gambit wanted us, and he was afraid of his desire. I wiped my face and noticed that Nerissa had backed up, her eyes flashing. She wanted to shift, and so did I--into my panther self. And if that happened, we'd both end up ripping out his throat.
I decided to take the lesser of two evils route, and without another word, I dropped him like a used Kleenex. Smacked him dead on center in the nose.
He went down, and I couldn't help myself; I added a nice little kick to the groin.
"Delilah--" Nerissa looked like she was barely keeping it together.
"Go get Iris. And hand me the phone."
She obeyed, and I punched in Chase's number. He must have been at his desk, because he answered on the first ring. "Johnson here."
"Chase, gotta problem lying here in my living room."
"Uh-oh," his voice wavered. "I'm not going to like this, am I?"
"Probably not. I just KO'd Andy Gambit. I want a restraining order forbidding him to come on our property--hold on," I said over his groans. Iris had just entered the room.
"Iris," I said, covering the phone. "Did you invite Andy in? Did Nerissa?"
She shook her head. "Are you insane? I'd no more let that ninny in than I would the Bonecrusher. The door was unlocked, and he entered the house without asking just moments before you got home. I was about to evict him when you and Camil e came through the door."
"Thanks. Would you make sure he doesn't go anywhere? I'm on the phone to the cops." I uncovered the receiver. "Chase, I also want to charge him with breaking and entering--or trespassing. Whatever you cal it when someone enters your home without asking. He barged in, uninvited, and picked a fight with Nerissa."
"I'l have one of the men out there on the double. Meanwhile, you do realize he can quite possibly file charges against you? Did he make any threats at al ? Anything you can use to say you feared for your safety?" The sound of his voice told me that he knew I hadn't been afraid.
But . . . maybe . . . "Yeah, wel , he cal ed me a bitch, a freak, and told me that he'd show me just who ran this society--earthborn men. I consider that a threat." I licked my lips. "He had a hard-on you couldn't miss . . ."
Chase let out a strangled cough. "Wonderful. Such a lovely example of the male gender. Makes me proud to be a man and al that rot. Okay, we'l see if we can pound it through his head that he'l come out worse for wear if he tries to take you to court. Tel me everything again. And don't leave anything out."
As I finished going over the timeline from when we'd entered the house, the doorbel rang, and Nerissa led in Officer Yugi, the Swedish empath. Iris was holding Andy Gambit at bay with her wand. He was stil on the floor, staring suspiciously at the Aqualine crystal. It hummed gently as Iris waved it in his face.
"Chase, I have to go. Yugi's here." I hung up and once again went over what had happened. Nerissa fil ed in the moments preceding, including the fact that Andy Gambit had pinched her butt. She wanted to press charges for assault, and I pressed them for Gambit's breaking and entering. I also told Yugi that I'd felt threatened in my own home by the pervert and that's why I'd punched him. Yugi hauled Gambit off in handcuffs, the reporter silent after demanding a lawyer.
As we closed the door behind them, I leaned against the wal , shaking my head. "That man has serious issues."
" That man is going to be responsible for his own death one of these days." Nerissa let out a little growl. "Somewhere, some Supe just isn't going to cotton to his aspersions and is going to take the dude out. And I won't be standing by his grave crying." She let out a little moan and dropped to the sofa.
"Just wait until the next issue of the Seattle Tattler comes out. I'l be splashed across the front: 'Lesbian Necrophiliac Werepuma--the Freaks'
Representative.' "
She said it with a drawn-out accent, and it sounded so funny, I let out a snort. "Ha! He wishes you'd be repping him, but in some other area. Did you see the erection the dude had going on there? Scary--and while he was angry. Even scarier."
Nerissa shuddered. "Yes, I saw it, and it turned my stomach. Why can't these perverts realize we aren't interested? That they don't turn us on with their drooling and slobbering and horny one-liners that need to be retired? We aren't masturbation bait, as much as they'd like to think so. I don't even want to know what his fantasies are, but ten to one, we're starring in his own private porn movie. Fucking jerk gives me the creeps. You mark my words, Andy Gambit wil end up raping somebody one day. Honestly, I don't want men like him thinking about me--in any way, shape, or form."
"Me either," I said softly. "The thought of someone like that fantasizing about me, or worse--touching me--makes me want to barf up a hairbal ."
"Yeah, it does at that." She shook her golden hair out of the ponytail she'd had it pul ed back in. It was tawnier than mine but gorgeous, like a lion's mane. "What happened to Camil e? Is she okay? She looks kind of grim."
"She got hit by big bad magic. Tel you about it over lunch--I'd like to wait until Luke gets here."
"Fine by me. That wil give me time to catch a shower. Menol y and I have two glorious days to spend together." Her eyes shone. "I hope you don't mind my staying at your house. I know it's ful ."
