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Da to worship

With every sweep of the paddle, the shirt stretched over taut e boys usually didn’t sport that kind of a hard body

Dawson sain She missed it, and in that tiny space of tilanced over at Bethany and sht out of her chest Bad, oh so bad

A plastic yellow ball zinged past her face, al her cheek

Kimmy, her partner, popped her hands on her hips “You’re not even paying attention”

She winced, because she wasn’t paying attention at all “Sorry,” shethe floor for the daet it”

Ki herto in the first place”

Ignoring her, Bethany stalked over to the ball The whole gawking thing was already getting out of hand, and she had a feeling it was going to get worse Even now she was fighting theher It felt like he was Do not do it The ers twitched around the paddle She bent and—

A golden hand reached the ball before she could Startled, she took a step back as her gaze drifted up…and up Where in the hell had he come from? It was the blond from the hallway yesterday—theinto crystalline blue eyes If she remembered correctly, he had been at least four tables over, and there was a good five feet in between each one She hadn’t even seen hieous walking around

Or maybe she just had a bad case of Dawson on the brain

“U…” Her words trailed off as her eyesto hide his dislike It practically rolled off him and crawled over her skin like a dozen spiders

“What’s your name?” he demanded

Bethany blinked The sound of his voiceBack in her old school, she’d been on the receiving end of that kind of a stare more than a few times, especially after she and Daniel had broken up He’d been the popular one…

The boy slish?”

A hot flush shot over her cheeks, turning the ca and this was a confrontation Okay, so she had no probles, but with other people? Yeah, she stared at him like she was a h itit, she could have sworn that waves of heat blew off of him like he was some kind of electric radiator Sweat dotted her brow “I said, what is your name?”

“Her name isn’t any of your business,” a smooth, deep voice cut in