nagging itch, repellent aime tempting. it was ra, at least he did not think so. the women he was usually attracted to were blonde ah full lips that aroused his fantasies. and besides, he had beeweo a finnish womava who still more thahese requirements. he had hful, well…something may have happe ond his wife might have misuood if she had known about it. but the marriage y awo daughters of salander’s age. in any case, he was ed ied girls who might be mistaken for skinny boys at a dista was not his style.
even so, he had caught himself having inappropriate daydreams about lisbeth salander, and he reised that he was ely ued by her. but the attraansky thought, was that salander was a fo him. he might just as well have falleh a painting of a nymph reek amphora. salaed a life that was not real for him, that fasated him though he ot share it—and in any case she forbade him fr it.
on one oansky was sitting at a stamla stan when salaering up and sat at a table a short distance aith three girls and a boy, all dressed in much the same way. armansky had watched her with i. she seemed to be just as reserved as she was at work, but she had actually almost smiled at a story told by one of her panions, a girl with purple hair.
armansky wondered how she would reae day he came treen hair, worn-out jeans, aher jacket craffiti as. she probably would just smirk at him.
she had been sittio him and did not turn around once, obviously u he was there. he felt straurbed by her prese he got up to slink away unnoticed, she suddeared straight at him, as though she had beehe time that he was sitting there and had him on her radar. her gaze had e sly that it felt like an attad he preteo see her a the café. she had not said hello even, but she followed him with her eyes, he was sure of it, and not uhe er did they st into his neck.
she rarely laughed. but over time armansky thought he eude. she had a dry sense of humour, to put it mildly, whipt a crooked, ironic smile.
arma so provoked by her laotiohat sometimes he wao grab hold of her ao force his way into her shell and win her friendship, or at least her respect.
oer she had been w for him for hs, had he tried to discuss these feelings with her. it was at miltoy’s christmas party one evening in ded for o s inappropriate had happe tried to tell her that he actually liked her. most of all he wahat he felt protective towards her, and if she ever h anything, she should o . he had eve. all in friendliness, of course.
she had wriggled out of his clumsy embrad left the party. after that she had he offiswered her mobile. her abseorture—almost a form of personal pu. he had nobody to discuss his feelings with, aime he realised alling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.
three weeks later, when armansky was w late one evening goihe year-end bookkeeping, salander reappeared. she to his office as silently as a ghost, and he became aware that she was standing in the shadows ihe doorway, watg him. he had no idea how long she had been there.
“would you like some coffee?” she asked. she handed him a the espresso ma the . mutely he accepted it, feeling both relief and terror whehe door closed with her foot. she sat down opposite his desk araight ihehe question in a way that either be laughed off nor avoided.
“dragarae?”
armansky sat as if paralysed, while desperately w how to answer. his first impulse reteed. then he saw her expression ahat this was the first time she had ever uttered any sual question. it was seriously meant, ao laugh it off she would take it as an affroo talk to him, and he wondered how long it had take up the ce to ask that question. he slowly put down his pen and leaned ba his ally he relaxed.
“what makes you think
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