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right into his rather impressively muscled chest.
    Did I happen to mention just how hard those muscles feel beneath the soft pads of my fingers?
    Or that I might actually enjoy running my hands slowly over what I imagine to be completely amazing pecks?
    Well, this isn’t good.
    With lightening quick reflexes, he reaches out to steady me as my eyes clash with his.
    “No.”  Usually if ignoring doesn’t work, bitch-mode will get the job done rather nicely.  That’s my second go-to line of defense.  And since I’m not naturally a bitch (I’m really not), it’s not something I enjoy doing.
    Once in a while I’ll actually get called a dyke for not being interested. Why is it that the most persistent ones are usually the ones who take rejection the hardest?  And they certainly like to go right for jugular when it finally becomes clear (to them anyway) that they won’t be tapping anything of mine with anything of theirs.
    Totally annoying.
    Narrowing those gorgeous eyes of his, half his mouth lifts into a smile.  My breath catches again.  How can that possibly be just as devastating as the full blown smile he’s already treated me to?
    I almost have to shake my head just to clear it of the spell he’s weaving around me.
    “No?”  His head tilts just a bit to the side as he continues watching me.  There’s just a hint of a smirk hovering around the edges of his lips.
    “No.” Forcing myself to hold strong against all this gorgeousness crammed into one irresistible package, I repeat slowly before elaborating, “I wasn’t going to answer you.”
    Brows drawing slowly together, he blinks his eyes as if I’m some sort of strange specimen smeared across a microscope slide.  “What’s your name?”
    Hastily I shake my head.
    Nope.  We are definitely not going to play this game.  There is absolutely no way in hell I’m getting dragged into some quasi-friendship with this guy.  That would be a mistake of epic proportions. I can already feel it.
    If, and that’s a really big if , I have a type, this guy is it.  Therefor he must be avoided at all costs.  That would be the smart thing to do and I’m all about being smart.  I refuse to fuck up my life any more than I already have.
    His brows, which are thick but not overly caterpillar-like, hike up his forehead in disbelief.  “So, let me get this straight- you won’t tell me what Alex did to upset you and you won’t give me your name?”  Once again laughter brims in his rich deep voice as he shakes his head.
    The slow scald of a blush burns its way across my cheeks.  Nervously my eyes dart around the crammed, dimly lit room one last time hoping that Brooklyn will magically appear so I can just grab her and bolt, but that apparently isn’t meant to be.
    Because there hasn’t been a Brooklyn sighting in at least twenty minutes.
    “I’m not upset.” But I’m definitely getting there.  And it has absolutely nothing to do with the gigantic ass who groped me and everything to do with the gorgeous, tawny eyed, dimpled Adonis who won’t leave me alone.
    “But you did sic those three girls on him, right?”  He nods his head to the left and my eyes naturally slide in that direction.  We’re both able to see the incredibly tall and brawny Alex along with the three girls who are still in the process of tearing him a new one.  Actually, focusing on that for a moment lightens my mood considerably because you can just tell those girls have totally committed themselves to their mission.  It’s doubtful that Alex will be going anywhere for a quite a while.  And if he does somehow manage to escape their clutches, they’ll probably follow him, picking up even more girls along the way.
    Technically speaking, I only pulled one girl into our conversation.  That being said, I’m not going to lie, it’s kind of a proud moment for me. I’m seriously hoping that Alex has learned his ass grabbing lesson tonight.
    “He got what he deserved.”
    I’m