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“I can help you control your beast, but not as well as Angel and Ethan can, and Petra is another wereleopard,” I said

Bobby looked at her more seriously then “I can’t sense it”

“Thank you for the compliment, Bobby,” Pierette said, and there was that touch of hu

If I hadn’t been standing right next to her, I ht turn of her head, the slance quickly turned to the floor It was part her own body language, but not all of it ItOlaf

gli her part, a mix of truth and lie that was far more subtle than Edward and his Ted persona

Bobby took the shy-flirting bait and wasted a nice s showy rose that wins the day So in the breeze The y, I wondered what kind of flower I was and decided a thistle A big prickly purple thistle, definitely not a flower to pick for a bouquet

“Are you going to show y?” Bobby asked

Pierette did that shy eye flick and smiled a little bit more as she shook her head “I’ll only step in if I feel your leopard rising Angel and Ethan will do the energy work until then”

Bobby looked at Ethan “Is your energy as gentle as Angel’s?”

Angel answered, “Gentler”

Bobby looked like he didn’t believe her She shook her head and said, “I’ve learned to be gentle, but Ethan seemed to come that way Didn’t you, dearie?”

She put her hand through his arun hand, but in the narrow confines of the hallway, if things went sideways it would be euns I knew Ethan had blades that he could reach with either hand, just like I did We all practiced shooting with both hands, but most people carried for their dominant hand

“Are you a gentle man, Flynn?” Olaf asked froentleentle man—and he made sure they sounded like an insult I knew Ethan wouldn’t rise to the verbal bait

“I try to be,” Ethan said with a smile

Olaf ely like I needed to come to Ethan’s defense I actually opened ood Ethan eapons and hand-to-hand, but Angel put her hand through ain Was it just the casual touch ofto tell o Besides, I didn’t need to defend ht, or they wouldn’t have been working as bodyguards for us Angel was an exception She could fight if she had to, because she was gold tiger clan and they insisted that, male or female, you had to know the basics, but she had other skills that round in social work and psychology just to name two