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"I don’t see the proble the small cup of medicine on the sink counter so that he could cross his ar every bit the inti Marine that he probably once was The fact that he was naked except for the torapped around his hips didn’t take away from the effect She could appreciate the concern and bossiness over her well-being, she really could, but that didn’t change the fact that she shouldn’t take theheavily as she reached up and pushed back her hair, soe to scratch her face and neck as she did it, "I really appreciate what you did for ht I do, but I don’t need anyas he continued to stare down at her

Not one to let so him to back down So when a lare up, she couldn’t help but shift nervously even as she struggled to hold her own in this contest of wills She would not lose, damn it!

"I-I don’t need it," she heard herself sta nervously before she could stop herself

Instead of arguing with her, he silare

"I’m not even really that itchy," she raht arlare that was actually starting to freak her out a little bit

"I doubt that it would help," she continued to ra," she added athat he’d stop glaring at her

When he still didn’t speak or move for that matter, she added, "I react badly to medicine"

An understatement, definitely an understate her to elaborate, he just kept on glaring down at her until she couldn’t take it any longer and finally blurted out, "Fine!" She grabbed the small cup of medicine, downed it in one sip and slammed the small disposable plastic cup on the counter

Furious that she’d let the bastard intimidate her, she stormed past hioing She decided that it was for that best that she didn’t look back, because if she saw even a hint of a so outside, scoop up a handful of that white slime and shove it down his throat

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"Let the drea," he absently told the erection h the kitchen cabinet by the sink, looking for so his hands over Tinkerbelle’s incredibly lush body

With a snort of disgust, he slaerator as he cursed hi this way, especially over a woman who hated him He didn’t need this complication in his life, but he’d be daht now That last two hours had been…

Pure hell for him

He’d never been911, but the fear that she’d take a turn for the worse during the tiet to his cell phone and make the call had kept his ass in the shoith her Not knohat else to do, he’d let his training take over and he’d handled her the way he would have if she’d been one of his ood plan, a solid plan, but there had just been one small problem with it

She wasn’t one of his men