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Jig’s chill attitude immediately set her at ease “Yeah,” she said “Go for it” And she only felt one razed hers

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After he’d wound the wrapping around one hand, and she did a fairly decent job with the other, Jig ran her though a fearmup exercises Izzy barked the occasional order fro was patient and didn’t seem to mind the interruptions

“Okay, tiloves onto her hands Once he was done, he slipped his pal you any kind of technique at this point, I just want you to go to town and wail on the pads Hard as you can It’s a for tension relief”

Chloe rotated her wrists, getting used to the feel of the gloves “What if I hurt you?” She’d never done anythingsoht

“Trust leamed, and Chloe had the distinct ie positions “You won’t hurt your hands either Try whacking your fists together”

“I can do that” She banged her gloves into each other, barely noticing the i her body sideways, she held up her gloved fists “Like this?”

“Just like that We’ll worry about perfecting your for lifted the pads He was a handsome alore He’d be a perfect physical specimen if it weren’t for an intricate scar on his cheek There was a story there A person didn’t get that kind of extensive daernail scratch Chloe’s scars may be on the inside, but they were there, and just as prosaw’s He looked into her eyes “Let it fly, darlin’”

Chloe stared at his scar for one ot it, but knew in her soul he’d been where she had He’d been helpless, at the inable pain This, what he was offering her right now, he was doing it because it’d worked for hi him become as obviously a man no one fucked with anymore

That’s what Chloe wanted What she craved The power and strength to keep others frooes” She cocked her ar’s pad “Hoas that?”