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I'm sliding this fanfic into the chapter where Poppy cooks Tora food at her apartment.
"I could scale this building in 30 seconds. Pick this lock in 10."
A brief silence hangs in the air. Tora doesn't continue his train of thought out loud, but his point is obvious. In under a minute, he could be in her room with his hand over her mouth and his body pinning her to the bed. He watches as her eyes grow wide and a light pink tint dust her cheeks.
"Shit." He didn't mean to frighten her, just help her understand the danger she's in. "Quick, tell her you're bluffing, asshole. You couldn't actually do that, it was just to give her a scare." But the truth is…not only could he easily break in, he so badly wants to…
Slip into her room, have her wake up against his bare chest in the moonlight. He hadn't been tempted to bed a girl in…what, two years? Now all he can think about is leaving a trail of open-mouth kisses on her neck.
But that makes him just as bad as those fucking wannabe thugs who wanted to "have some fun with her." Being around him is going to get her hurt. He's always had extremely taut self-control, but those monsters don't. The thought of them breaking in and…
He set his jaw tightly. "You know I'm just trying to spook ya. But ya need some bars to keep safe."
