I stood there, watching him being sexy and helpful and sarcastic, and just couldn’t take it. He had no right being all those things under my roof. In my house. It was time to assert power and control over the situation. “Please leave,” I said one more time. “Please shut up.” He picked up another plate to clean. I jumped on his back, lacing both my legs over his waist from behind, seizing his neck in a chokehold. That, at least, was the plan. But I had miscalculated it gravely. Because his huge, muscular shoulders got in the way of choking him. Embarrassingly, even as I was wrapped around him,
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