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worry and her stomach churning in anxiety, she couldn’t help but to feel like they were talking right to her.
    “Why haven’t you helped us?” they seemed to say.
    “You are letting this nation fall apart…” she mumbled.
    “What?”
    It wasn’t until Bruce uttered his response that she even realized she had said that out loud. “Nothing,” she turned back to face him.
    “Never mind then,” he returned his gaze to his laptop.
    Anita took a deep breath, refraining from rolling her eyes just this once.
    “We need to find a way to threaten the Palestinians without making the Israelis think we’re trying to put more military in their territory.”
    “But a military presence is exactly what we need. Putin needs a check to his power. We need a wall,” she said.
    Bruce folded his arms. “Israel is the wall. Look, no one in the Middle East is afraid of us anymore. An intimidation factor is what we need. If you ask me, running this resolution in the first place and getting it to pass will tell Isreal and the rest of the Middle East what side to get on.”
    “But if we exploit them, we will never hear the end of it.”
    “But that doesn’t matter yet.” Bruce shut his laptop. “Look, I have a meeting to get to, do you mind?”
    Anita set her jaw. “What meeting?”
    When Bruce didn’t respond, she added, “You’re just trying to cut this conversation short, because you know that if we get a chance to finish it, we will move on to other things. And if we move on to other things, I might be so inclined as to ask you why you have a tiger, or whatever that was.”
    “Well, I could just as easily ask what you were doing in my backyard.”
    Anita flexed her jaw, curling her toes. “I already told you. I was going through the notes and had an idea I wanted to tell you. When I saw your lights on out back, I thought I could just go around there.”
    He nodded slowly with an infuriating expression on his face that indicated he didn’t believe a word she said. With his hand on the doorknob, he glanced pointedly at her shoes, then at her. “You should probably get out while you’re still ahead.”
    With that, he opened his door and walked out.
    Anita had no choice but to follow him.

Chapter Two
    Anita yanked open the glass door and stepped over the threshold into the strikingly cold air that filled her favorite gym. After an infuriating walk home, all she could think about was the resolution. Every step she took was toward another self-argument. Every huff of breath only filled her with more frustration. And yet, if she managed to get her mind off of the Russia and Israel situation, equally annoying thoughts of Bruce rushed in to take its place. She had barely worked her way through a hastily prepared dinner of broccoli and chicken when she realized that if she was going to get any sleep that night, she needed to head to the gym and work some of that steam off.
    So there she was, heading right for her trainer only thirty minutes after she called in a session. He stood in the center of the mat, waiting for her, his toned body clad in black and his arms crossed in anticipation.
    A smile stretched across Anita’s face as she stepped onto the much softer surface of the mat and let her small backpack fall to the ground next to her.
    “I’m surprised you called,” he watched her unlace her shoes.
    “Yeah, let’s just get started,” she joined him on the center of the mat.
    “Tough day at work?” he asked with a raised brow.
    She nodded as she threw the first punch.
    He dogged it, and in the same motion, came in with a fist to her side.
    She grunted, doubling over.
    “Too eager,” he patted her on her back.
    She nodded, but shifted her feet ever so slightly to the right, grabbed his hand, twisted it backwards and heaved him over her shoulder. His back hit the mat with a thump. With a huff, he chuckled and said, “That’s exactly what I’m looking for.” He then jumped up, hitting his stance of