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"Your stick isn't long enough for you to adequately be sure of feeling out the way ahead"

"Your point being what?" He asked in an aggravated tone

Somehow I knew his annoyance wasdirected personally atno alternative I said, "I should go first I'm short and it would be easier for me to feel out the floor ahead of us than it is for you"

"Not happening honey! I go ahead first, because we don't know if there's so back here and if so us in this mess!"

"What if you step into a hole like I did? Do you think I' to be able pull you out of one? Doubtful is too hopeful of a word to describe that scenario"

He said nothing and I took that opportunity to slide by hiain Awareness shot through me in spades as Colt's hands came down to securely fasten on my hips Why did he have to hold onto me like that?

One hand uished torch stick froritted harshly at the mention of my shortness I wasn't all that short!

I wasn't exactly average height by Ah

"Boy, I can literally feel how angry saying that ht now?" I said hotly in response as I stepped forward dislodging his grasp of my hips

He chuckled in the darkness, "Okay, whatever you say Shorty"

That did it!

I wheeled around and swung the torch stick My sas arrested in action by a steel grip I punched out withhand folded over it totally engulfing ht vision did the man have for pity sakes!

Both my arhly against hih, I wasn't scared

"You Miss Kim have a temper" Came Colt's voice in a hu called Shorty and I don't like being restrained!"

His words were a surprise, "I apologize for egging you on, but that doesn't excuse the fact that you were in the process of trying to do ain"