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She thought he was a nice guy. She’d run a parasec if she knew what he really wanted.
Rynn shook his head as he walked down the path away from Jac’s house. He’d stayed long enough to ensure that she’d locked the door behind her and then waited until he’d seen the lights go on in the windows upstairs. Once he had, he’d checked the windows on the ground floor to ensure they were secure and then left.
The need to see to her safety was a new one. Probably because she was a female, he rationalized, even though he’d never felt this need to look after a female before, and he’d met plenty. But then, none of them had been human. Perhaps it was an instinctive reaction to the fact she was, essentially, a female of his own race?
He checked his wrists quickly as he walked, wondering for a moment
