Nora Roberts. The lawyer may not know (№ 276109)

We lived there for two weeks longer than necessary.
- It was only a little snake.
And it didn't seem this small when crawled right into the tub!
- You screamed like a girl.
- Nothing like that! I screamed, like any normal man. And while I was standing there bare-ass naked, I'm bare hands and killed her.
- Well, suppose you chopped her into mince with a towel.
- Which pulled out of the wall with his bare hands. What's the difference?
She remembered well that scene, he stood before her, magnificent in his nakedness, with a scared look, and was holding the metal rod from which hung a lifeless snake.
- Those were the days!