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MY HEART was somewhere in the vicinity of my throat as Seth led , but his hand was ain He sat me down on the closed toilet, and I felt like we’d been here before

Oh yeah, we had been

"What…what are you doing?" I asked

Kneeling down, he was staring at our joined hands, his brows furrowed together, and even though fifteento nunchuck hiin the world "What is the real reason why you want to learn how to fight, Josie?"

The question caught ht into my eyes, like he could see inside me There were a lot of reasons why I wanted to train I’d been helpless back there It was so had either been pulled out froht in front of ave him the main reason, the one that sucked to say out loud "I don’t want to be afraid, and I’ht, I won’t be so afraid"

His ahtly for a o, he rose fluidly "You’ll still be afraid, Josie"

Well, that was helpful "I thought you were leaving"

He reached over et rid ofat first, because that was far from the truth I didn’t want hi I shook my head "You don’t need to do this…" I wavedthe bathroo anything under that sweater?" he asked, ignoring me

"Um…" I sed "Yeah, a tank top Why?"

He shifted, turning on the faucet "Take it off"

"What?" My voice pitched high

With the daain "I need to look at your neck again It was bleeding earlier You wouldn’t let me do it on the road, so let me do it now," he said, and I opened ain "Please"