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"Oh really?" Jill de her ar smile "Can you honestly tell me that you don’t want her around?" When he went to answer her she held up a hand stopping him "And keep in mind that I was down in the foyer when you couldn’t take your eyes off of her,"

she said with the srin that he didn’t see too much these days

"She’s my responsibility, Jill, and has infor to keep an eye on her," he explained casually, when he knew she was right He’d had a hell of a ti but Izzy, which was just another reason why she needed to leave

"So you’re fine with sending her away? With the real possibility that you’ll never see her again?" Jill asked, watching him intently as she waited for his answer

"She’s nothing but a distraction, Jill We’ll all be better off when she’s gone"

Shaking her head, she snorted in disgust "Sometimes you can be such an assle"

He didn’t say anything as she storht, but there really was no choice in the o

Chapter 18

"Easy, just relax"

Isabella threw Joshua a disbelieving look as she practically clung to the floor, wishing they were on the first floor or better yet outside on solid ground Why the hell couldn’t she stop shaking? It didn’t help that she was still lightheaded and felt like she was going to be sick

"It will get better in a fewvoice Granted those were the sao when he helped Ephraiet her down froround she’d clung onto hi to fall

When Ephrairip-like hold on Joshua and flat out refused to go with Ephraim Not because she was afraid of the man, she wasn’t She wasn’t stupid The man could have torn her apart or the very least threatened to do that a thousand different times by now, but he hadn’t He’d been patient and very protective of her

No the reasoning behind her refusal was very sih she’d fall if she released Joshua, who’d held her tightly and tried soothing her and secondly, she was still pretty pissed that thein Ephraim’s face moments later was any indication then so was Madison

"Do you feel like you’re going to be sick?" Joshua asked as he knelt by her side and gently pushed her sweat slicked hair out of her face

She squeezed her eyes shut and nodded firmly, once

Any movement beyond that would probably make her sick, she decided

"Okay, we’ll just sit here and talk for a little while How does that sound?" he asked, sounding ain Ephraim appeared to be only in his late twenties, early thirties so maybe Joshua was older Granted he hadn’t exactly acted older earlier when he’d been flirting with her and taunting Chris for his own amuse

"Twenty-one"

"Oh," she mumbled

"Why?"

"You just sounded older for awhen her world would stop spinning

"I have ood enough so that I can finally take a look at those scratches?"