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She laughed “Yeah, a lot of help you are”

He chuckled and avoided looking at her, because if he looked—that shirt was sure as fuck coain

“Okay, so move out of my way,” she ordered

He raised a brow at her “When did you beco?”

She huffed still bent on being angry “It’s better than cute!”

He couldn’t help it, he laughed

“Okay that did it, Mister!” She took an egg and smashed it onto his bare chest

Noah easily saw it co, could have moved, could have possibly broken her ared her on hadn’t he? He wanted to laugh at the apt pun Still, he had to ad that she was, bold and temperamental

Stepping back, she then seemed to think better of her actions as her expression looked disrabbed another paper towel and stepped up to wipe his chest

He now caught the scent of her And no, it wasn’t of eggs It was of her He’d caught it last night when he’d woken up to see her blue gaze above hi hi He looked around at the counters He wanted to set her up on one of thes he was tempted to do

“This tattoo,” she whispered “I know this tat The symbol…it is so familiar”

Noah grabbed her hand and tugged her closer “What?”

She nodded “I’ve seen it somewhere before…”

So here it was The reason he couldn’t act on his lust Her er to him There had only ever been three other people ore this tatt “From where? Who had it?”

Her face contorted in pain “H-Harris Y-your hurting me”

He gazed down to see he had her wrist in a tight hold He let go instantly He could see his fingerprints there in a blazing red color “Fuck!” He instantly regretted hurting her He carefully looked at the marks They would bruise he felt sure

“I don’t know at all where I’ve seen it,” she whispered and shook her hand as if it were nu

“Do you knohat it et an icepack for her wrist

“To the victor…”

He whirled around “…Goes the spoils!”

Nodding her head, she looked upset “H-how do I know that? When I don’t even…” Her voice trailed away

He grabbed the ice pack froently take her arm as he applied the pack to her wrist “Only four people that I know of have this tat, Ridge,” he spoke softly “We ned it There’s no way you could have seen it Then to knohat it stands for?”

Biting her lip, she looked nervous

He tried to speak softly to her, “Thisto me”