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He had not expected her to like the situation, or to give hinificant amount of assistance But her refusal to believe what he had told her, coupled with her endless derision, had set hie Even so, he ent, resilient woman She would adjust and coht until she hit him

Robin’s head snapped back as her fist struck his jaw She could not hurt hith, but he saw pain fill her eyes as she cradled her bleeding hand

That she would injure herself trying to hurt him infuriated his inside hier" He seized her by the arms "Shall I retrieve that for you while you still have one hand working well enough to hold it?"

Chris swept her foot behind his legs, using it to unbalance hi on his back with her on top of hi hi to catch her foot

"Are you through?" he shouted

"Why?" she yelled back "Is it time for the directions?"

"What are you prattling about, woman?"

"You know exactly what Iover her face "Is this when you make me kill myself, the way you did Noro" She scrambled to her feet, picked up his bow case, and heaved it at him "Don’t you remember? He was in that don bank you tried to rob"

Robin caught the case and set it aside "I’ve never robbed a bank in Atlanta" He started after her

"Don’t you lie to me," she snapped as she retreated "We found one of your arrowheads imbedded in a wall I’ve seen what you can make people do I knohat you did to Norman"

"I don’t bloody know any Nored around hi her jacket

Chris shoved a sofa between them as she told him the date of the robbery and the address of the bank "Now do you re her as the details finally rang a bell "I didn’t rob that bank I used the old underground tunnels to break into the vault so I could retrieve the ?"

"--but that was aze "Theit escaped"

"Yeah" She braced her arainst the back of the sofa "That would be you"

"No, it was the other man Describe this Norman to me" He listened as she snapped out the details "Wait He was the sod who held thees, but when the authorities storlared at her "He was also alive when he nicked out of there I didn’t touch him"

"He was dead an hour later" She turned her back on him and walked to the s "He blew his head off Because you told him to while he was hypnotized You controlled hient and that cop back in Atlanta The way you’ve been trying to withto hared his hand through his hair "Wait ItI said to him He was still under my influence"

She whirled around "What did you say to him? ’Go blow your head off’?"

"I told him it was time to put an end to this" Robin ht her by the waist "I meant the violence and the robbery, Chris Not his life It’s not as if he wore a sign around his neck saying that he was suicidal"

"You bastard" She tore away froed, knocking her to the carpet, but she rolled out frorabbed the back of her skirt, using it to drag her back, whipping his head to one side as she slass shards froris I proave an outraged cry as she threw herself at hi hi him with tiny drops of her blood

Robin stayed on his back but wrapped his arle free He felt her jerking at the front of his trousers, and with his free hand he ripped off the remains of her skirt As she freed his cock, he tore at her panties until she was naked from the waist down

Robin slid into Chris at the sa caused their hip bones to collide, and the jolt rocked through both of theet at his chest, and he dug his fingers into her botto her atop hi him

Robin swore as he felt her teeth on his flat nipple and her nails raking over his ribs He grabbed her hair and forced her head up

"You waste your tiy, my lady My flesh cannot be pierced by the teeth of a s "You need these to tear into it"