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“I’ll have Charles look into what could disable their signal. I’m sure he knows of something.” Phillip looked confident, and that made everyone feel more at ease.

“Great job, guys. We’ve got this whole hero thing down,” I exclaimed as I relaxed back against the couch, hoping maybe we could watch a movie or something together like a happy family.

We only had maybe thirty minutes together of peace before Phillip told Draco and Rose that they needed to get to the hospital, where a man was going to hold one of the nurses at gunpoint. Drugs were bad, and he had too many. Draco couldn’t die if he got shot, and Rose would be able to talk him down.

So it was just me and the boys left. We watched a movie about three hundred Spartans fighting a large army, and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. Movies were something I rarely got to enjoy as a youngin. But I caught up on most of the big ones, obviously somehow I missed this hot abs movie.

“I think I was a Spartan woman in a past life.” They were complete badasses.

“Interesting,” AJ commented while silently mouthing off all the words that the king was saying.

“What, you don’t think so?” I shot back, and he lifted his fist in the air like the men in the movie.

“I think you would have been like her, the queen of the Spartans. She’s pretty badass.” He complimented me in his statement. Sweet kid, maybe we could find him a girlfriend or something to make his life a little happier.

Thinking about what girls were like at his age only made me change my mind. Maybe I would keep him away from girls for a while.

My eyes watched him as he went all movie nerd with the action scenes, and I nodded to myself. Yep, AJ was now under my protection against teenage girls that would cause trouble for him.

“You’re looking mischievous,” Leon whispered into my hair. Chills rose against my skin, and I pressed my head against his lips lightly, wanting a kiss. He knew it too, and gave me a soft peck against my hair. He was really good at the being-a-couple thing.

“Are you accusing me of mischief?”  Maybe it was all the testosterone happening on the TV, but I was suddenly wanting my own warrior to rough me up against the sheets.

He shook his head, not even answering my question. Instead his hands gingerly lifted my head and turned it toward his lips. Oh, yeah, baby.

“Seriously…It’s like we can’t escape people making out in here,” AJ groaned, but since he was now my new baby to take care of, I let it slide.

“Don’t worry, they are about to leave.” Well, Phillip was right about that. Leon lifted me off the couch with him and walked us out of the room.

“I need a girlfriend,” I heard AJ comment, making me pull back from Leon’s lips to shout back at the room.

“Not until you’re thirty, mister!”

There was laughter echoing down the hall as Leon stepped us into the elevator, and we ascended to his apartment to play in the sheets like I wanted.

Leon told me how much of a star he was at football, but maybe I was part psychic calling him Star, because he was quite stellar in bed.