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gym. “No. I don’t kill them. I don’t really
have enemies. I have…” She thought about Red, about the look in his eyes as he
waited for her in the ring. “I have guys who want to take me down a notch
before they think they can ask me out.”
    “Take
down a notch…” She heard the question in his voice.
    “Take
the fight out of me, I guess. Beat me. You know, in a fight.” She raised her
hand, making a fist, throwing a mock punch.
    “Yeah,
I understand that. But what do you mean when you say… ‘ask you out?’”
    She
realized he was still holding her hand. And for a startling instant, she
realized she really didn’t want to pull hers away. That scared her, more than
he did. And how she felt unnerved her further. There was a certain sensation of
having an anchor point in all this chaos, holding hand.  At least now that
he’d stopped trying to fight with her.
    “It
means to take someone out on a date…” He shook his head at that. She waved her free
hand. “Never mind. In my case it usually meant they just wanted to have sex
with me.”
    The
raised eyebrow and the flash of interest in his eyes made her smile. His voice
was low when he spoke. “I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing.”
    “Which?
The fighting or the sex?”
    “Both.”
    His
hand was warm, solid, and right now the only thing that was keeping her moored
to her sanity. She squeezed back, despite thinking she was absolutely insane to
feel remotely comfortable with her captor. She thought back to all the cheesy
paranormal romance stories that she had read, and growled at herself.  She
was not going to be one of those women who fall head over heels for the
asshole, by chapter three. Even if what he said ended up being true –  that
he really was an alien. A very sexy, possessive alien, for that matter.
    She
pulled her hand away from his.
    “So
your world, they fight all the time? That must be hard?”
    His
shrug was non-committal. “It is the way it’s been for as long as anyone
remembers. No one knows a different life.” His fingers tensed against hers. “I
would like for life to be different. I would like for the Clans to stop
fighting…for there to be one rule, one Clan…or many little Clans, but one
leader.” He was fidgeting now, uneasy. “No one believes it can happen.”
    “But
you do?”
    “I
do.”
    “Is
that what you fight for? Back on your planet?”
    “It
is.” He lifted his hand to hers once again, and for a minute she thought he was
going to kiss her knuckles. He held her hand, looking at it as if he wasn’t
quite sure whether to be so close. Then he turned and looked directly into her
eyes.
    “And
I fight with you because you…how you would say. You make me want to ask you
out.”
    She
did laugh then, and it wasn’t from hysteria or panic. “That’s not how it’s
supposed to…oh, never mind. I get what you mean. Do you always fight with your
women before you have sex with them?”
    “We
fight because we’re strong, and we like that in our mates. I like women who are
strong…warriors. And I like someone who is my equal, who will stand by my side
through life’s tribulations.” Then he did kiss her hand, teeth hard against her
knuckles. It was anything but gentle, and she was certain she’d have a bruise
on her hand tomorrow.
    Tomorrow…
    “How
long does it take to get wherever we’re going?”
    “It
takes several days. Normally you’d be asleep. We put the…women in a light
hyper-sleep so they don’t…worry.”
    “If
you were any more careful in choosing your words I’d think you were a
politician.”
    He
made a non-committal noise, ignoring her words. “I could offer you that, have
you take the drugs and sleep until we land.” She saw something in his eyes that
told her he’d much prefer her to be awake.
    She
thought about that for a minute. Sleep, drugged, waking groggy and disoriented
in a strange new world. Maybe without Taso there. Being awake with him seemed
somehow