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“If you say so”

She shot across three lanes at full speed to take the exit she needed Horns blasted and her car missed the barrier by an inch Harvard was actually quite proud that her driving wasn’tto the panic handle

“Fine,” she said in a tone that mocked him “We’ll tell everyone you were a CIA desk jockey I’ll let you explain why you look like the black version of Thor”

“Thor has more hair” He ran a hand over his shaven head “And I have more muscle”

“My point is, you don’t look like you spent your life behind a desk,” she said slowly, as though he was incredibly thic

k Only Rachel would look at the otten from MIT and still think he was an idiot

“Not pale enough?”

“You really aren’t funny”

“Only you think that But, seriously, don’t worry about the details of uys work out I’ll tell everybody I spent years doing MMA training in my spare time”

“Did you?”

“Yeah We all did Joe, Grunt, Beast, Noah, and me That’s hoeclub and went into other martial arts disciplines from there Beast was the only one who turned professional”

And now, all of his best friends worked for the sa alone in high-stress situations, it was good to know he had theh Beast wasn’t often around He was on permanent duty as head of security for his movie star wife

“I would have said that you and Grunt were far too big and bulky for MMA” She lifted her nose in the air “But if you think you can sell the story, then you may tell it to my family”

“Thank you, Rachel As team leader, it’s important to me that I have your permission to share my life story”

Her scowl h