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I glared up at him “Get off”
“I was trying to,” he gruh for ross comment
I pushed—pushed hard Clay toppled offbut open space He landed on the floor, his weight rattling the TV and causing the flames on the candle to flicker
“What the Hell?” Clay de up He looked thunderstruck that I was capable of doing what I’d just done
“I told you I wasn’t enjoying this” I swung s off the couch and stood “And you didn’t stop”
Clay stared up atslowly in shock It was like he didn’t even hear me “You pushed me off you”
“Yeah, I did, because you’re gross” I stepped over his legs and stalked past the , heading for the door
He powered to his feet “You didn’t see me to kiss you”
“What? Okay Fake news right there,” I snapped “I didn’t beg you You asked me if you could kiss me and I said just a kiss Don’t rewrite what just happened”
“Whatever You knohat, I wasn’t even into it”
Rolling my eyes, I turned back to the door “Sure felt like you were”
“Only because you’re the only female here that won’t expect me to mate with her”
Mating in Warden ter a metric crap ton of little Warden babies, and I was beyond insulted at this point Not just because that was superwrong of him to say, but it also struck close to home
There was no one here for me, no relationship that could ever be considered serious Wardens didn’t mix with humans
They didn’t even mix with my kind
“I’m sure I’m not the only female here that doesn’t want to mate with you, you jackass”
Clay moved with the speed of a Warden One moment he was beside the couch and the next he was in front of me “You don’t need to be a—”
“Choose your words wisely, buddy” Irritation was quickly turning into anger, and I tried to calry
And those bad things usually involved blood
Ahis jaw and his chest rose with a deep breath before his handsome face smoothed out “You know, let’s start over” His hand moved outside my central vision and landed on my shoulder I jumped, startled by the unexpected contact
Wrong move on his part, because I did not like to be startled
I caught his arround?”
“What?” Clay’s htly
“Because you’re about to hit it really hard” I twisted his arm, and there was a brief second when I saw the shock flash across his face He was a Warden in training, preparing to be the warrior the world knew the Wardens as, and he didn’t understand how I’d gained the upper hand so quickly
And then he wasn’t thinking anything
I spun hi I kicked out withback as my foot connected perfectly with the center of his back Incredibly proud of myself, I waited for him to eat the floor
Except that wasn’t what happened
Clay flew across the rooave way and then out the ent, into the yard I heard hiround Sounded like a minor earthquake
“Whoops,” I whispered, pressing my hands to my cheeks I stood there for, like, half ato the front door “Oh, no, no, no”
Luckily the porch light was on and it was bright enough to see where Clay was
He’d landed in a rosebush
“Oh, dear” I went down the steps as Clay rolled out of the bush, onto his side, groaning He seen
“What in the holy Hell?”
I ju the voice first Misha He calow froht Too far away from me to see him clearly, but I didn’t need to see his expression to know he had that look on his face, a mixture of disappointment and disbelief
Misha turned froround, to me, to theand then back to me “Do I even want to know?”
There wasn’t a single part of me that was surprised to see Misha I’d known it was only a ured out I’d snuck away from the Pit and ended up here
We were raised together, receiving the saht, and he’d been there for my first scraped knee when I’d tried and failed to keep up with hihed at me for—and he’d been there the first ti down around me
Misha had grown from an adorable, freckle-faced, redheaded dork to quite the cutie I’d had a crush on him for about two hours when I was sixteen, which hen I’d kissed him