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I retaliated, but not hard Ieasy about it Trying to pin Paige in place … fuck, you’d have better luck nailing a blob of ice-creaoddamn cat

Pausing, she glared “If I wanted a spar, I’d have said so Fight Me”

“I’ to hurt—motherfucker” I didn’t have time to rub at the jaw she’d just slaain

I put a little more oomph behind my strikes, determined to neutralise her so we could put a stop to this duel As a Pagori, I was faster and stronger than her The probleht people ere faster and stronger; trained to use that strength and speed against theht then

We kept on exchanging blows, though mine were mostly defensive I’d hoped to wait her out, but she showed no signs of tiring or calht into my Adam’s Apple, and I was absolutely done with this ridiculous shit So I did what I’d agreed not to do—I used ift of sensory paralysis

With the siht and hearing She froze with an enraged gasp I slaainst the wall, secured her arht of oing nowhere, I returned her senses to her

Paige’s beautiful eyes narrowed “You led Hard

My blood shouldn’t have heated Shouldn’t have pooled low But seeing her trapped, feeling her buck againstshe was coot hard And she felt it Stiffened Sed Went frory to cautious in a second flat

She didn’t tell me to free her, didn’tshe did or said would coe

I should let her go Should back away But I didn’t Maybe it was the adrenaline, maybe it was the alcohol indress … but I snapped “Fuck” I slammed my mouth down on hers

Jesus, she tasted like sin And I had to haveback All the need I’d bottled up for too long bubbled to the surface and shattered my control

I took her reedy for her That greed was raw and violent and edged with possessiveness