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here, get out of the chick’s section.”
    He sighs and walks over. “I’m not a dog.”
    “Oh come on, don’t pout.”
    “Don’t tell me to heel.”
    So he’s actually pushing back on me. I don’t like it. “Look, you want my help? ‘Cuz you asked. You want someone more politically correct, you could ask any chick in school.”
    He shakes his head. “I want you,” he says softly.
    Something in me responds to it, but I shove the feeling away with both hands.
    “Okay, then do what I say.”
    He sighs, then laughs, a low sexy sound that thrums through me, and then he comes over to hover behind me while I sort through racks. “Okay, what next?”
    “You’ll need this.” I give him a large leather cuff with a watch in the center. “This.” A belt with rivets. “This.” A wallet with a large chain. “These.” Jeans with built in rips. “And this.” A tee with frayed sleeves and a large, jagged logo on the front that screams badass.
    He sighs.
    “You gotta cut that out. Sighing is the opposite of badass, you get me? The opposite of badass.”
    “What’s badass then?”
    “Grunting. Swearing.”
    “I don’t swear.”
    “Well, fine. You want to hook up with some church girls? Go ahead. You want someone hard, you need to be hard.”
    He clears his throat, and then grunts.
    I laugh, ignoring the fact that it’s kind of sexy with his deep voice. I shove him into a dressing room. “I’ll wait out here.”
    I sit on a table and wait. I’d like to look around, but I need to wait till next paycheck. Rent in Cali is hella high.
    “I don’t want to.”
    “What?” I yell back. “Don’t want to what?”
    “Come out.”
    “Why? Come on Ryan. You’re already half way to badass with that hair. It’ll look perfect on you. All the girls will come running.”
    “Girls like you?”
    I swallow. “Sure, girls like me. Badasses.”
    “Fine.”
    I hear a sigh that he turns to a grunt at the end, and then he comes out. I set down the magazine I was reading and look up.
    He could model for a motorcycle magazine. Instant lady-boners everywhere.
    He looks down at the floor and shoves his hands in his pockets, which is hard because the jeans are tight on his lean hips and muscled thighs. A few rips above the knee make me want to take a peek underneath.
    The belt is perfection, the tee hangs over the front, and I stand up to fix it. I tuck the front in slightly behind the belt, and it tightens the shirt in the front and draws attention to his chest and abs. Dude is ripped.
    “You roiding or something?”
    “I like working out. Love working out.”
    “Good with your hands?”
    He nods. I tuck the shirt a little further into the front of his pants and his breath catches. I realize I’m a bit close, and the air around us heats up.
    I step back, hands up.
    I like the look of the cuff, it emphasizes his hot forearms. He’s that rare combo of tall and built. Just one more thing. The shoes can wait. I reach up and grab his ponytail holder out of his hair. It looks too tidy.
    “Sit.” I point to a chair and he does. I pull his hair back and leave a few pieces out to the front, kind of messy, and tie the rest in a low pony that looks masculine. Now he looks perfect.
    We’ll just need to go somewhere where we can find the right type of chick.

Chapter 4
    We turn onto Pike Drive just as the sun is setting. The mall took longer than I thought.
    Seems like with being senior guards we never get out of work much before the evening, but it’s fine because I’m a night owl anyway. This is when I come alive.
    Ryan stares the house we’ve just pulled up in front of, and fidgets. “Pike? Is this area safe at night?”
    I get out and look over to see if any of the crowd is here. A couple motorcycles are parked next to a few cars that are as old as mine but more beat up. I can hear voices coming from the backyard.
    “Safe? Why do you even have to worry about that?” I look over his six foot four frame, now clothed in