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“You touch her again and I’ll break a few things Keep your fucking hands to yourself”

Without another word, Dante takesstupidly from my ordeal with creepy Anton, and when Dante pullsmy spine

“Are you okay?” he asks quietly, hismy neck

“I’m fine I’m sorry I didn’t want to talk to him—”

“It’s not your fault Anton’s a dick, and if I’d suspected he’d make a play for you, I never would have left you alone I’m sorry”

I’y, and it ives me a small, almost-sheepish smile, and then he pulls me closer My hand is in his, and his arainst his hard body His fingers start playing up and down my spine, and it feels like I can barely breathe

When I look up into his face, his eyes are on aze takes my breath away

“What did he say to you?” he asks quietly

“That he’d pay ht”

“He’s a prick,” he mutters

I don’t knohat to say to that, so I content o up ertips trace a path froh it feels as if his hand dips almost indecently low a few times

“So Construction, huh? Do you like it?” I ask, fighting to keep some sort of control and focus

“Yeah Most of the tiroom me to take it over in the next year or two”

“Trying? You seem to handle yourself pretty well,” I say and then blush as his eyes meet mine “I mean…you’re very confident, and so many of those people you talked to earlier just kind of went on and on about howwith you in particular” Great Now I’ertips skate over the roundest part of ripping ertips so, so close to where I’asp, and he slowly moves his hand back up to my back

“My brother’s going to end up taking over This is ,” he says, as if I’