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“You were better with that pocketknife” He pulled“I a people, yes Which is why I have no proble you there until the de eventually comes for you”

Anger boiled throughto talk and couldn’t A crease formed between his eyebrows, and he leaned in a little closer so he could hearelse

I swung my foot and connected with his already bruised balls

His left eye squinted, and his face turned red as he wheezed and dropped, letting o He landed on his knees and bent over, theacross his broad back

“Do not”—I picked up the sword, thought better of it because it would be eain, and jammed a fist to my hip—“manhandle or threaten me Look, we fucked It happened I enjoyed…most of it But if you don’t want to do that anys attached with you, either If I’ to have to work together You need to drop this te like a tea to need es, and I’m here to help So let’s just be acquaintances without all the drama, yes?”

He lay on his knees and forearms with his head down “What the fuck were those beasts thinking shovingfire Your kick crippled me, I think How’s your pussy?”

This guy’s mood could sure pivot

“Stillyet It’s also leaking our coasms So that’s unpleasant for me”

He groaned and dropped his head a little more “I enjoyed it, too I’ve wanted to thrust into you since you left your family to save them and stared me down in the wood Your fearlessness, your bravery, the feel of your aniht there and have my fill”

He pushed painfully to his feet, holding his junk

“But it’s not meant to be,” he said

“I said okay I hear you”

He nodded “I’m also a broody bastard I don’t make excuses for it I wasn’t born with charm”