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    Bai looked at him without speaking for a moment , then said, “ Alex , E lena is your sister and she loves you. She will always love you. But kid, she is my woman, soon to be my wife. She belongs to me now. She is mine. Elena loves me more than anything in the world , as I do her . N othing you can do or say will change that. ”
    Alex flushed and looked down , refusing to meet Bai’s eyes.
    Bai stepped closer . W ith the toe of his boot , he raised Alex’s chin , forcing him to meet his gaze.
    “ Look at me , Alex . Hear me well . S tay the hell out of my way.”
    Bai took a deep drag off his cigarette and turned to walk toward the door. He hesitated for a moment in the doorway , then stopped and looked back over his shoulder.
    “O ne more thing , Alex . Just so you know . W hen I get someone down on the floor and turn it loose -- they don’t get up . T he only reason you did is because you are E lena’s brother, Wyatt’s son , and Wan’s grandson. ”
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    Alex sat against the wall , unable to move for long moments after Bai le ft the dojo. Every part of his body ache d , throb bed with pain. He knew his ribs were broken , likely the reason he kept spitting up blood. He should go to the infirmary and make sure he didn’t have s erious internal injuries , but he was too embarrassed. He didn’t want anyone , especially his sister or his father , to know how badly Bai had beaten him. He knew they would say that he let his anger compromise his skill, turn ing him into a novice. But it was more than that. He couldn’t figure it out. He was a highly trained k ung fu master . G od damnit ! E ven angry , he knew how to fight. But he hadn’t put a single mark on Bai. Christ, to be honest, he never touched him.
    As he sat on the floor , his head thrown back against the wall , trying to get a grip on what happened, he saw Bai’s eyes and the expression on his face when he warned Alex to s t ay out of his way . It was t he Frenchman , the man, not the myth . T he reality was more frightening than the lore . Alex shuddered , knowing for the first time in his life he saw a human incarnation of an animal in the wild . A poised predatory animal primed to take down its prey . W ith a tremor that shook him to his core, Alex acknowledged that this was the man his beloved sister would marry.

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    Chapter 7
     
    Elena sat at her dressing table , taking the jeweled pins from her hair , reliving the evening. She shook out her hair and let it fall down to the middle of her back in a luminous cloud of fire red curls. She smiled at the reflection of her flushed cheeks in the mirror , remembering how Bai freed her hair as they danced. He tucked the pins in his pocket as if they were his to take, as if she was his to take. It was such an intimate thing to do that she blushed thinking about it. She wasn’ t surprised that people were shocked at the way they danced. From the first throbbing beat of the music to the last whispery wail of the horn, her body responded in aroused sensual movements to Bai’s erotic solicitations. She thought with a guilty little grin, it was as though they were making love to one another in front of two hundred people.
    Th at is what he did to her, what he had always done. Just looking at her with that wicked smile made her pulse race and shivery sensations flood over her. Even now , she could feel hi m on her body, tweaking her nipples, trailing his lips up the length of her leg, running his hands over her thighs , her hips, pinching her bottom. She saw his teasing smile, heard his thro aty whispers telling her what he intended to do to her . How he would suck her , bite her , how he would spank her ass bright red. A hard tremor shook her groin at the memory . S he gripped the edge of the table, a rush of moisture pooling between her thighs .
    God, it was a wonder he hadn’t laid her on the floor and flat out fucked her. She giggled at the thought. She would have loved to see the reaction of