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Оглавление“You thinking I’m some sort of hero?”
Griffin asked flatly. The sooner he disabused Nora of that notion, the better. “For all you know I was itching for a fight and got lucky enough to find one.”
“You were protecting me,” she insisted.
“You’ve been nothing but a pain in my ass since you walked into my garage, you know that?” Maybe his harsh words would change her mind, keep her away.
She walked closer to him, then stopped and laid the flat of her hand lightly on his chest.
“I’m sorry,” she said, as she rose onto her toes, “but I really feel like this is something I have to do.”
He looked at her, unable to see more than the flash of her eyes, feel her moving ever closer to him. He shook his head once, a quick, decisive no. A warning. A plea.
She ignored them all. “Brace yourself,” she said, her breath washing over him, “this might hurt.”
And she brushed her lips against the uninjured side of his mouth.
