“You listen to me, baby,” he growls as his fingers tighten around my throat. He tilts his head forward then runs his tongue along the shell of my ear. “If I didn’t tell those assholes at our school to leave you the fuck alone, they’d be pawing at you any chance they got. You’re seriously blind if you don’t see how damn sexy you are.” He buries the hand that isn’t around my neck into my hair, yanking my neck back at a painful angle. I grapple at his wrists, not quite sure if I want him to remove his hands or to anchor them to me. “And, if one of them laid a finger on you, I’d have to kill
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