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"Deadly," he said, narrowing his beautiful green eyes on her

"Look, buddy," she said, getting pretty pissed herself as she reached out and pressed her hands against his warood it felt to touch him, and tried to shove hiain

His glare turned confused as he looked down at her hands "What are you doing?"

"Shoving your psycho ass away froain

He frowned down at her hands "You should have been able to knockconfused

"And when I take those kickboxing lessons I will!" she snapped, giving up on her efforts to shove him away and dropped her hands back into her lap

He looked up at her, studying her so intensely that she fought against the urge to squirm Finally he shook his head in disbelief "There’s no way you should haveyour abilities," he said quietly

She rolled her eyes "I have abilities, just not ass kicking abilities or believe rabbed my ass"

For the first tienuine pleased ss to her sto about that, can you?"

"Yeah, out of everything that’s happened to est i The way she was reacting to his presence and touch was actually one of her biggest concerns

"Tell er on the tip of her nose to get her attention, "was thisthe first time you’ve been attacked?"

"First off, don’t call rew up in New York where gettingthe way that little ain

"And what did you do when you were htly so he could look at her as she answered

She shrugged "Gave hiot into the fetal position What else?"

"You dropped to the ground in a fetal position?" he nearly choked out

"Of course I always drop to the ground if there’s no possible way that I can run away," she explained, wondering not for the first ti skills

"You run away?" he repeated back slowly as if she’d spoken in a foreign language

"Each and every ti it would probably piss hi it

"Haven’t you ever tried to fight back?" he demanded

"Of course I have, but I usually end up hurtingher poor battered hand up pointedly, earning another glare froh, there was that tiym that I was able towhy she was actually enjoying screith him

He looked pleased at her announcement That is until she added, "But I really couldn’t blaer"

In an instant he was back to glowering and she decided to ignore his for the first time since she hadn’t really had the chance to do so when she first arrived or when she was hanging outside thelike an idiot