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When I was just behind her, I shouted. “Hey, lady, I get it. You’re very fast, but I’m here to work out.”
She looked over her shoulder at me and removed an earbud from her ear.
“Sorry?” She shot me a polite smile and slowed down.
Okay, she was doing the whole blasé thing pretty well, but I wasn’t buying it.
“No need to show off. I’m not interested.”
She made a face. “Excuse me?”
“Look, I’m here to work.”
She came to an abrupt stop.
Fucking toe picks.
I slid to a stop and glided back to where she was standing with her arms folded over her heaving chest.
“What’s your problem?” she asked.
“No problem, lady. You’re pretty enough, I just don’t have it in my schedule today to play.”
Her jaw dropped. “Prettyenough?”
Her voice went real high, and for a second doubt crept in. “Are you saying you don’t know who I am?”
“I have no clue who you are. Why would I?”
Okay. She was seriously offended. Did she really not know who I was?
Was that possible in Calico Cove?
Her gray eyes narrowed, and her full lips pursed.
“Wait a minute,” she said. “Is this a bit?”
“A bit?”
“Yeah. Do you know whoIam?”
“No. Why would I know whoyouare?”
She rolled her eyes. At me. “Look buddy, if this is your wholelet me pretend I don’t know her to her get her attentionroutine, it’s not working.”
“That’s whatyou’redoing tome.”I accused her. “Aren’t you?”
“Hard to pretend not to know who you are, when I don’t know who you are. And I’m also here to work out.” She took off, skating backwards like a goddamn pro. “Oh, and BTW, you’re not pretty. At all.”
She turned on a dime and was off like a slap shot.
Of course, I wasn’t pretty. I’ve had three broken noses, a cracked eye socket, and four years ago a blade sliced across my forehead and left a nasty scar.
This was the face of a champion.
I was proud of this face.
But I was left standing there like an asshole. I mean, if she wasn’t some puck bunny trying to flirt with me, then I came off sounding like the elitist dick Wendy accused me of being.
