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"I don’t …" He shook his head as if he were clearing it "I don’t want to get rid of you"

She flushed as he didn’t look away froht So what do you need ht?"

"I … u into her backpack for her red pens and notepad "I think ere close to your being done? If that’s true,chapter? And then I think I’m ready for a final review of--"

When Troy continued to sta

Oh

He ide-eyed and pale as he looked up at Axe

Who was standing over the hu her professor for a death shroud

FIFTEEN

What the hell kind of professor is this, Axe thought as he loomed over the human waste of space with the hipster clothes, the full head of hair, and the coe-coed eyes

Professors were supposed to be old, bushy-browed, tearing anachronisms, the kind of males where, even on a deserted island with the fate of the race in jeopardy, no female would ever look twice at theun to the head

Oh, and then top off all the totally-not-old-and-elbow-padded with the fact that theat Elise like she was the single eous female on the planet?

Which, fine Was true

But still

He needed to kill the bastard right here, right now--

"Oh, I’m sorry," Elise said quickly "This is uard," Axe snapped "I’m here to keep punks away from her"

And how’d you like a de whatever-the-fuck How ’bout I break both your thighbones and use the splintered end of one of them to clean my teeth--after I rip your throat out with lare "He’s just here to make my father feel coainst me"

"Well … ah …" Mr Professor pulled at the collar of his shirt "So, ue campuses in the last couple of years I, ah, I can see how … u?