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circle of personal space and holding up his hands palms out to show her that he meant no harm.
     
    “I’m sorry,” he said softly, his voice melodic and very nearly hypnotic in its soft tones, “sometimes I ask questions I probably shouldn’t.  I have a curious mind and I don’t always wait to get to know a person before trying to pick her brains.”
     
    “No, don’t be sorry.  You didn’t do anything wrong.  I just need to go, that’s all.  I think I really need to get out of here.  I’m sorry.”
     
    She was already on the move while she was talking, trying very hard to get around Philip without him really realizing what she was doing.  Because now that she had decided that she needed to move, she was painfully aware of the fact that he was standing in between her and her only escape route.  She was like a caged animal, very much at the mercy of Philip’s whims.
     
    “Wait!  Please, just wait a moment.”
     
    “No really,” the panic was rising higher and she was almost certain she was going to start screaming, “I think I need to just go.  Please, just excuse me.”
     
    She thought that he wasn’t going to move and she knew without a doubt that if he didn’t want her to move, she wasn’t going anywhere.  She had watched him pick that huge man up like he didn’t weigh anything at all.  He had to be a million times stronger than her and close to a foot taller.  And then there were the other differences, the ones she couldn’t articulate or even really quantify, but that she knew deep down inside of her bones were there, regardless. 
     
    But why?  What did he want from her?  If he had intervened out of a desire to play the part of the Good Samaritan, his job was done.  She was (relatively) safe and all she wanted was to get home.  If he wanted something other than that, she had no idea what it was.  She just wanted to be somewhere else than where she was. 
     
    She tried to slide past him, figuring that maybe if she caught him off guard she could make a break for it.  But his instincts were far more refined than hers and she had hardly moved at all before one of his massive hands was wrapped around her upper arm.  He wasn’t trying to hurt her, she knew that somehow, but he had a firm enough hold on her that she wasn’t going to be able to pull herself free.
     
    “Let me walk with you.  We can grab a drink somewhere.”
     
    “No, really, that’s OK.  I’m fine.”
     
    “I believe you.  Do you think I’m suggesting a drink because I don’t think you’re OK?”
     
    “Um, I don’t know.  I guess so.”
     
    “Did it ever occur to you that I might just want to spend more time with you?  We could go anywhere you like.  Or, better yet, come back to my home.  It’s safe and I have a fully stocked bar.  I believe that I could make you anything you like.”
     
    OK, was this guy for real?  He wanted to take her home with him?   Before that suggestion she had thought there was something different about him, something menacing and not quite natural.  Now she thought he might just be an asshole.  What kind of guy tried to pick up a chick who had just been attacked?  Maybe he was one of those kinds of guys who got off on women who were feeling particularly vulnerable, or maybe not.
     
    Maybe he was in the middle of living out his superhero fantasy and he wanted her to fulfill it to its completion for him.  Something like that most definitely seemed like a possibility.  Whatever it was, and she really didn’t care, one thing she could see for sure was that he was definitely too good looking for his own good.
     
    It was beyond presumptuous for him to ask her to come to his house when he knew nothing about her, which made her think that he was arrogant enough to believe that she was going to say yes.  That rubbed her the wrong way and she yanked her arm backwards, her fear of him momentarily forgotten.
     
    “Are you for real right now?”
     
    “I’m