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His thu on saying no?”

“That’s not the point I have things I need to shout at you about”

His lips twitched “Can you tellto stay withhere?”

Reaching up, Keiko wrapped her arrasped her hips and lifted her, allowing her to wrap her legs around hiainst the cool, hard wall, she ran her fingers through the overgrown hair she loved Just like she loved the man

“You’d better not disappoint ,” she ordered

“I wouldn’t dare” His sood authority that you know kung fu”

Now that was just cheeky She bent her head and bit his chest, hard

“Hey” He tugged her hair to angle her head back “What was that for?”

“For sassing s out” She narrowed her eyes at him “Seems I have a bite mark, too One your bat planted on me ere in Houston”

“Oh, that” His cheeks turned pink “I was kind of hoping you wouldn’t notice that before I woke up”

“Which uessed after putting two and two together over his strange reaction in the communications room when he’d first explained about his bat

“To be fair,” he said “If you’re going to be mad at someone, it should be the bat It wasn’t my idea to bite you”

She tried to frown at hi all those wonderful u new A hybrid Your bat bit me and infected enes are changing, and Friday is treating me like her own personal lab rat I don’t think I like Friday very much”

“Welcome to the club,” he muttered “What did Friday say?”

And this was the part that o into overdrive “She thinks the sa tohalf bat, that I’ll have an animal to match yours”