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"Your tone of voice, for one thing"

"Ah Interesting So you’re coht it was supposed to be the other way around"

"We’re leaving" Elise shook her head "This is ridiculous And you’re being totally inappropriate"

"Ae of character only kick in when you’re not fucking soo time

Axe exploded up out of his chair and was on the son of a bitch a blink later, picking thehis leather arency exit and burst outside

Axe spun Peyton around and hung hi "Time for you to back off"

"You asshole," Peyton hissed "You fucking got her, didn’t you"

Elise caar bar--but Axe stopped her with an order and a palm in her face "Go back inside"

"Axe, don’t hurt hio--"

Peyton’s fancy loafers were dangling above the ground, and he was turning blue, but he was so furious, he didn’t seeasped--"want her to leave?"

Axe snarled, baring his fangs "Because there’s no reason for her to see what I’ to do to you"

"Axe, please--"

That hen Novoover from across the street, the feency exit clicked shut

"Peyton," she drawled, "you always find the fun, don’t you"

"Al--" He choked and coughed "--ways"

It was hard to say when exactly Axe tweaked to the fact that they were in trouble But one o back inside so he could kill Peyton, and the next …

Novo caught the scent at the sa to the direction the as co from

"Oh, shit," she said under her breath

Axe dropped Peyton and let the guy find his feet and his oxygen If he did "Elise, back inside Now"

"No, I’ until--"

Axe took her arm and airlifted her to the door "That’s a lesser That s lesser"

Elise’s look of alarood news and the bad news: bad because he never wanted to see her scared; good because she didn’t argue with hirabbed for the handle on the door they’d coency exit was locked Duh