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I was really needing a testosterone purge I’d been cooped up in the house, with irlfriend in school with Mr Sympathetic

That’d be Brett

Jonesy had pulsed and said Brett was licking his wounds all day, ive him sympathy It made me want to do a repeat perforthe crystal that hung from the mirror as I moved in for a kiss I didn’t do one of the soft ones either that I could get ahen ere together all the tiht Even though it had only been yesterday, it felt like weeks to rabbed her behind her neck and with ed her into ers into her hair She ave a little groan

I guess there was a couple ways to take care of the testosterone purge

She pulled back, breathless, her face a soft pink She giggled "Wohere’d that co," she said with a whisper and a grin

I shrugged "Feeling cranked Need to get to judo and work some of the stress out"

She turned in her seat and pulsed the truck into reverse "I don’t think you were too concerned over being punctual, Caleb," she so and se a bunch of pecks along her collarbone where the necklace I got her lay "Stop! Caleb I’ a little

"Ah-huh Whatever, practice ainst her flesh

She must’ve pulled up to the dojo but I was still busy Doin’ the Jade worship

I stopped lass of the truck I whipped around, my lips hot from the assault of her skin and looked into my sensei’s eyes

Busted

So busted

"K, so this is so beyond e " Jade whispered

I kept ht You never lost eye contact on the ainst an opponent I’d have drills

But I’d have aze

That I knew

I carefully opened the door and he did an offensive jab before I could escape the confines of the cab I ardly hoisted, half-in, half-out of the car No room to maneuver

But of course, that was the beauty of it

My head ainst my chin

Close

I crouched and drove a foot sweep into his tender knee, exposed as it was, and he nailed me in the bread basket My air squeezed out If I’d been sloppy he’d have had htJade!" Sensei screa uts up in a wared at hiht me and Jade let out a screa with a bruising i in a co to my feet in a crouch, my hands one after another in defense formation

He planted his hands on his hips and shtened

"Not bad Hart Hated that lazy supero sideways on your training"

It was standard lecturethat should be autoet all emotional," he said

My eyes flicked behind hi the car door that I’d left open before I flew out of there "Is this part of your training?" she asked, confused

I laughed and shrugged "He keeps me on it You just never knoith Sensei"

Jade looked over at hith, his muscular, compact body

Poised for violence

I wasn’t real intimidated, but ere close in size I looked at it from her perspective, he’d be scary for Jade

Sensei Anderson ht so too Heway "I’m Caleb’s judo instructor Hunter Anderson"

Jade popped out of the truck and looked like she would shake his hand but he gave a little bow instead She s if she could help it

"Do you want to check out a practice?" he asked her

She shrugged "Sure I can do the houess" She looked at me a little uncertainly, did I want her to stay?

I smiled Dumb unspoken question, I alanted her around I held out led for the two minutes it took to walk into the dojo

Anderson followed behind us

CHAPTER 14

Jade

Jade sighed If she had to go through oneat Gale and Garcia’s faces, she just couldn’t be selfish She needed to try and find the DI Match the saht that there was a lot of people she wanted to kill froh It wasn’t a pissed off, spur-of-the-ue of "I wish I could slay them"

It was a murder that was yet to happen That’s what had felt like a rotting oil slick in her hand Someone that would kill A teen

Someone she very likely knew

It wasn’t an exact science either That made her mad There were no absolutes She could touch the perp, as the cops called hith he hen he wore the saet it from skin on skin It was the proverbial needle in the haystack

And Jade was tired of looking

Bobbi saw her frustration "Let’s take a s she was a little tired They sat down at the cafeteria tables that were at K-M Jade thought about hoorried Caleb was that this was the school she was at today Tulle counted it as extra credit It was a field trip for high schoolers, Jade thought, re her coain fro all those alien samples, Jade," she said Then added, with a small smirk, "And all the focus you’ll have available to you without Mr Hart as a distraction"

Jade had just stared at her It was Jade’s conviction that Tulle thought entirely too often of she and Caleb She frowned and the grin faded from Tulle’s face After all, Jade was emancipated and didn’t really feel like she wasn’t on equal ground with Tulle She’d gone through all the stupid legal hoops to do it and now by God, back off

Jade had left without sothat Tulle so obviously needed didn’t help Jade out though Tulle had her nose plugged up her butt every opportunity she could Even Caleb had noticed

Bry Weller ca a Granny Sether until his approach Her face puckered slightly as the sour tartness filled her mouth

"Hey," she smiled at him, pleased to see a faoin’?" he asked, eying up the cops

"Okay," she said, giving a significant look to the class?" she asked with a grin

"Nope, senior"

That’s right, Jade remembered, he’d slide by this last year