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every bit of self-control I possessed as her fresh scent rose to tickle my nostrils. As her soft body, writhing and wiggling below me, began to still. Gradually, as though the fight was slowly leaving her. And when she went limp beneath me, her breasts pressed against my chest, and her soft exerted breath brushed against my skin, I had to constantly remind myself why I was doing this.
    Stay in the game, Kian .
    This was so not about me. This was all about her.
    Fortunately, Brynn would often land a good kick to my nuts to bring me back to the present.

    Brynn
    The time I spent with Kian had done some amazing things for my confidence, at least in the self-defense realm. He was strong and capable. He never seemed to overstep the role between teacher and student, all serious and professional. One hundred percent ethical. Sage’s comments from the night before had me thinking back, though, looking for any signs that she was right. Trying desperately to remember a time that he’d clearly flirted. But he’d never made a single move on me.
    And it was starting to drive me nuts.
    Because he was really fucking gorgeous .
    I nearly fainted the first time he grabbed hold of me to mimic an attack. Every time he pulled my hand to his body to show me where to strike, I wanted to melt into a little gooey puddle. And these submission moves he’d been showing me lately had me squirming beneath him and dying to go home and bang myself silly to relieve the ache. Pressed below him, his firm grip on my wrists…
    Fuck.
    This was seriously killing me.
    I needed to feed off that anger, to push down the maddening lust that wanted to take over .
    So, after letting my body go limp, giving my ‘ attacker ’ a sense of power, I aimed my knee for his groin. There were a lot of other things I wanted to do to that part of his anatomy, but just knowing that sort of pissed me off and had me totally unsettled.
    His deflection left him open, so I pushed at him and scrambled away, rolling up to my feet.
    “Now you run,” Kian said as he rose to stand across the mat from me.
    “ Heck with that. I think I can take you,” I ground out and rushed at him.
    I didn’t last long, though.
    The next thing I knew, we were back on the floor. He was on top of me again. My breath left my body in a loud Oomph !
    "Don't lose focus, baby," he smiled down at me. “You were starting to think you were bigger than your britches. You can fight a guy off, but you were switching over to taking me on. There's a difference."
    He was right. With his mass against mine, I was powerless in a full on fight. I could bite and scratch and kick, but so could he, really. Lesson learned. If a bad dude was to attack me, do not try to take him on.
    But this was Kian. And, again, he was on top of me .
    He was different. Lying under him, I felt safer than ever. Even the way his weight was distributed over me, the way he angled his body, was protective.
    “You okay?” he asked softly. “I didn’t hurt you when I took you down, did I?” His hand lifted to my jaw, his fingers along my neck while his thumb brushed my cheek.
    Sage’s words kept repeating through my mind as I shook my head slowly at his question, my eyes locked with his. Then, I turned my head slightly and caught his thumb in my lips, sucking gently, my tongue smoothing over the tip as my eyes drifted closed. I felt him intake a sharp breath.
    Releasing his thumb, I met his gaze and saw the heat in his eyes. He wanted me. And for the first time in a long time, the first time since Evan, I wanted to be wanted.
    For what seemed like forever, we continued to study each other. His hooded gaze held me still, waiting. His lips dipped ever so faintly and, just for a moment, I thought he was going to kiss me. But then, he blinked and shook his head slightly, his breath stilted… and he lifted off me.
    Once he ’d backed away to his knees, he held out his hand and pulled me up with him to a stand. I watched him walk over to the