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grunt. Sitting back up, I said, “Got
it?”
    “Do I get to try it?”
    Shit! “Yes, of course,” I said. I still sounded very
professional and relaxed. I was in awe of myself. I lay down on my back and he
got down on his knees next to me. I felt his knee press against the top of my
hip gently. “Don’t treat me like a girl,” I said. He laughed and pressed it in
harder. Then as I had done to him, he dropped his chest down. Before he hit me,
I rolled out from underneath him so he landed on my side. It was a position I
easily escaped from.
    “Hey! What the hell?”
    “You think this Devon guy is going to sit still and
wait for you to crush his chest? You’re going to have to move faster than
that.”
    “I will. I’m worried about…I don’t want to…”
    “You aren’t going to get anything out of this if you
don’t just put the fact that I’m a girl out of your mind.”
    He ran his eyes down my body and back up. I felt the
heat coming from his eyes. When they settled back on mine he said, “It’s not
easy.”
    I sat up, pushing him back slightly. “Then you’re
going to get your ass kicked,” I said. “Get back down on all fours.”
    He was looking at me strangely now, but he did what
I asked. I straddled his back and then lowered myself down so that I was on top
of him. I wasn’t gentle about it. I hooked my feet around him just as he
thought he was going to be as cool as I was and throw me off. I was quite
pleased with myself when it took him a whole hell of a lot of effort to do it.
    “Damn, girl! You missed your calling. You should be
an MMA fighter.” I stood up without responding and he said, “Wait, I get to try
that one.” I reluctantly got down on the mat on all fours. I felt him straddle
me and just as I was thinking about rolling away, I felt his strong legs clamp
down on either side of me. He dropped himself down on me…and not gently in the
least. He hooked his feet around me and there was no way in hell I was going
anywhere. Then he put his arms around my neck and leaned his lips so close to
my ear that I felt their vibrations as he said, “How’s that?”
    “Great,” I grunted out. “Let me up.” I felt him
adjust his weight so that it wasn’t all down on me, but he didn’t get up.
Instead, he ran the side of his face along the side of mine. Against my will, I
shuddered. “Knock it off,” I told him. “Is this how you train with Sam?”
    He let go of me and stood up. I stood as well.
“What’s up with you today, Jessie?”
    “Nothing,” I said, trying to get my breathing back
under control.
    “You act like you’re pissed off at me or something.
What did I do?”
    “Nothing, Paul. We’re just working here. You
obviously have a big fight coming up and need the help. I don’t want people to
know I trained you and then you got your ass kicked.”
    “Oh, so it’s just about what people are going to
think?”
    “It’s about you getting your money’s worth. You’re
paying me to teach you technique so stop with the flirty stuff, be professional
and let’s move on.”
    “No,” he said.
    “No? What do you mean no?”
    “Just what I said. I’ll stop flirting, that’s fine, but I’m not doing this until you tell me
what’s wrong with you.”
    “Then you lose out on a day of training,” I said,
stooping to pick up my towel. I wiped my face and went over to get a drink out
of my water bottle. He followed me.
    “Is this about us having sex yesterday?”
    “ Shh !” I looked around to
make sure no one else was in there. Greg and his client had left. “No! But
let’s not announce that to the entire gym. There’s nothing—”
    “Bullshit.”
    “ Grr ! Why can’t you just let it go?” I said.
    He folded his arms and his biceps flexed. Damn him!
“Why not just tell me what is going on?”
    Before I caught myself I heard the words come out of
my mouth, “Is Marie wanted by the police?”

 
    CHAPTER
THREE
    He looked at me like I’d grown a spare head.