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He’d lied

He hadn’t called her, but showed up at the crack of daith coffee and donuts and that damn sexy sed into a pair of jeans and a tee shirt The entire way here he’d held her hand, caressing the back of her hand with his thu to make her comfortable It had worked That is until he’d pulled into thelot for the outdoor paintball arena That’s when she’d started suggesting other alternatives to being chased by a bunch of psychoticeach other with little round balls

He’d laughed

The bastard!

Danny sighed, giving up on gently prodding her and took her hand and pulled her towards a large gate n and took in the very large, very detailed sign that was taller than her and attached to the chain-link fence She started reading the warnings and immediately wished that she hadn’t

"If this isn’t dangerous then why are there over fifty warnings about death and accidental ainst her chest with one arnored her concerns and continued to pull her towards a makeshift barrier

"Take a knee, Tinkerbelle," Danny said when they’d reached the barrier

Tre, she did as he asked, just in time too it would see at the into the barrier with several loud whacks Resisting the natural urge to run back to the entrance and to the safety of the wo for the next two hours, she stayed there while Danny un, how to use their surroundings to her advantage and what to do if she got hit

Unfortunately for her, she was too busy listening to the sounds of paintballs going splat around her and the sounds of grown h to hide the sounds of people getting hit and crying out Yeah, this really wasn’t for her

"Danny," she said, licking her lips nervously, "I-"

"Stay here and count to ten, then follow ive hi a blue helmet or arm band"

"But-"

"You’ll be fine," he said, cutting her off once again, but this ti a swift kiss that left her stunned "Reone and she was left kneeling on the ground behind a wooden barrier, in the middle of the woods about to be chased down by a bunch of psychoticon her bottom lip, she looked wistfully over her shoulder at the entrance She could wait for hi to her feet when so," and her world turned red and blue

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"You’re banned!" thehim by surprise, not because he’d never heard those words screamed before, he was a Bradford after all, but because of who theat

"Are you kiddingwildly over his shoulder to get free "You’re seriously going to ban me because a feimps complained?"

"Youwildly towards the group ofabout their injuries and the fact that his little Tinkerbelle had ignored their surrender and kept shooting

Damn, he was proud

"If they couldn’t handle it then they shouldn’t have walked through those gates!" his little warrior shouted, er’s jaw drop in astonisher yelled once he’d et over his shock