Thoroughly Kissed

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said.
    â€œNot according to your footnotes. I’m familiar with those sources. Many of them contradict what you’ve written.”
    â€œMaybe you should have cross-checked them,” she snapped. “They support my argument.”
    â€œYour argument is that no one knows what happened in the early Middle Ages except you.”
    â€œI’m not the first scholar to say that what remains from that period is open to interpretation.”
    â€œBut you are the first to say that an entire system of apprenticeship existed in the non-Christian religions.”
    â€œI didn’t call them a religion!”
    â€œWhich is another flaw!”
    They had both raised their voices. She took a step closer to him. What an arrogant idiot he was. She had read his credentials in the course guide over pizza the night before. His specialty was world history from 1600 to the present day. He had no right to criticize her.
    She took a deep breath. All of her friends had warned her at various points in her life that her temper flared too quickly. She didn’t need to lose it in front of her department chairman, not during their first meeting.
    â€œIt was the Christian Church that labeled a lot of those practices as religion,” she said as calmly as she could. “The church was working on converting people who had never heard of it. The record is biased toward that conversion.”
    â€œHistory is always written by the winners.”
    â€œDo you always speak in cliches or is this something you’re just doing for my benefit?”
    His blue eyes flashed. “I’m not planning to do anything that will benefit you, Professor Lost.”
    She straightened her shoulders. She was dangerously close to losing her temper. That last sarcastic sentence was the first sign that she was about to lose control. She had to hold onto it. If she got mad, he would never forget it. People who were on the receiving end of her wrath never did.
    â€œI’m not asking you to do anything to benefit me,” she said softly.
    He flattened his hands on his desk. “I’m in charge of the hirings and firings here, and frankly, I’m not pleased with anything about you.”
    She crossed her arms. “You’re not in charge of hiring or firing. The university has committees for that.”
    â€œCommittees that take the recommendation of the department heads very seriously.” He leaned toward her. “You’re a fraud, Professor Lost. You make up your research and then go on the History Channel pretending to be a real historian.”
    â€œI am the most real historian you’ll ever have in this department,” she snapped. “I know more about primary research than all of your colleagues put together.”
    â€œDo you?” he asked, his voice even softer. Somehow it sounded more menacing that way.
    She swallowed, wishing she could take back the words. Of course she had done more primary research than the rest of them. She had lived in that time period. She knew what she had written was fact. The rest of them were guessing.
    â€œYes,” she said, “I do.”
    â€œThen why don’t you cite more primary sources in your book?”
    â€œI’ve cited enough for every other scholar in the world, Professor Found. England in the early Middle Ages is not your time period. Why don’t you trust the people who specialize in the area?”
    He smiled then, and the beauty of the expression caught her even though she wanted to slap him. “I do specialize in the area, Professor Lost.”
    â€œNot according to your write up in all the college guidelines,” she said, then flushed. She hadn’t wanted him to know that she was checking up on him.
    He raised his eyebrows as if the comment amused him. “Those were written when I was hired. For the last five years, I’ve changed specialties. I just came from England. I’ve been studying the Dark

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