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That hurt She looked to Derek for support

“Was it awful?” she asked the crazy un

“It could have been better,” Derek said “But you were in a hurry”

“Exactly” Davina turned back to Jack “In a hurry because of you If you hadn’t set a stupid deadline then I would have had time to improve the script”

“Look,” Jack said evenly “You need to face up to the fact that you aren’t the world’s s”

“Like what?”

“Davy,” Jack said through gritted teeth, “I don’t think this is the time or the place for this discussion”

Davina had lost her focus slightly, but since the conversation was distracting Derek, she thought it was the perfect time to have it

“Derek doesn’t mind, do you, Derek?”

Derek looked confused He eyed the stun gun Jack clenched his jaw

“You can bake,” Derek said helpfully

Davina rewarded hiive a puppy He seemed pleased and less likely to zap her unconscious

“I can bake,” she

said and that reminded her of the brownies in the pantry “Who wants a brownie?”

She crossed the kitchen in front of Jack to get to the pantry Even in the midst of a crisis Jack could irritate her like no one else For a second there she’d forgotten that she was trying to buy soan to sweat