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Six
TEN MINUTES LATER,I had everything I needed, and I was packing up my stuff, more than ready to get out of there.
There was something so exhausting about all that handsomeness.
Seriously. It was unabated. It was relentless. It was grueling.
And I wasn’t even looking at him! He was looking at me.
Finally, I paused to look back. “What?”
“You’re nothing like I thought you’d be,” he said.
I gave him a look. “Right back atcha.”
“I expected you to be bigger, for one,” he said.
“You didn’t even know I was coming.”
“Today, I didn’t know. We were planning to hire you before, though. Then I changed my mind.”
“And then the studio changed it back.”
“Something like that.”
Jack was still assessing me, and I can’t begin to describe how strange it was to be the watchee rather than the watcher.
He went on, “I guess I thought you’d be more of a tough guy.”
I was not a tough guy. I was the opposite of a tough guy. But I wasn’t telling him that. “Nothing about this job requires you to be a tough guy.”
“What does it require?”
“Focus. Training. Awareness.” I tapped my head like I was pointing to my brain. “It’s not about being tough. It’s about being prepared.”
“But a bodyguard, you know? I just feel like you should be larger. You’re, like, tiny.”
“I am hardly tiny,” I said. “You just happen to be enormous.”
“What are you? Five-four?”
“I am five-six, thank you.” I was five-five.
“So what would you do if some massive guy tried to beat me up?”
“That would never happen,” I said. “We’d anticipate the threat and remove you from the scene before it ever came to that.”
“But what if it did?”
“It wouldn’t.”
“But just—hypothetically?”
I sighed. “Fine. Hypothetically, if it did—which it wouldn’t—I would just… take him down.”
“But how?”
“I’ve done jujitsu since I was six, and I’m a second-degree black belt.”
