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Holy shit, you’re leading with a joke?
Unfortunately, my audience was not receptive to humor.
“Can I see some ID?”
“Uh, no. Can I see yours?”
Smooth, Jolie. Sass will get you everywhere.
He stared at me. I couldn’t see his eyes, just my disheveled self in his mirrored lenses. I probably wouldn’t be real impressed with me right now if I was him, either.
“You’re trespassing on private property, ma’am.”
“So, I’ll leave.”
“Please sit down.” He indicated a stone garden bench nearby.
Uh-oh. If this guy wasn’t a stripper, I was seriously in trouble.
“I’m not sitting down.” My voice wobbled a little. I had very little pushback in me for hot, authoritative men and I’d almost run out already. “I’m leaving.”
“I’ll need your name.” He stood in front of me with his hands on his belt, making his already wide body as wide as possible, basically blocking me in between the fence, the bench, and some sculpted bushes. I wondered if anyone else could see us right now.
And if that would be a good thing or not.
“I’m not giving you my name. You can’t keep me here. This is kidnapping!”
His impassive face said I was being hysterical and he wasn’t having it.
There was a long, creepy silence, and then he said, “Do you even know where you are?”
I refused to notice how ominous that sounded. Maybe he just thought I’d hit my head or something.
Good. Just tell him you’re lost.
“I… I think I’m lost.”
He crooked an eyebrow.
“I thought I was… somewhere else. I thought I’d been here before, or something…” I dared a glance up at the imposing house across the landscaped yard behind him.
“All visitors need to check in and show ID. And use the gate,” he added dryly.
I looked him over nervously. He still wasn’t budging.
What the hell was this place?
This is beyond weird. You need to leave.
“I… I didn’t mean to come in here.”
“So you climbed the fence by accident?”
“Technically, I climbed a tree.”
“This is private property,” he repeated.
“I didn’t know where I was going.”
