Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 288

I half-expected to get turned away.

Guess dropping Matthew's name still worked like a charm, especially with Thorsten.

Taking a deep breath, I stepped inside and was greeted by the sight of an old man with graying hair, moving through slow, deliberate self-defense routines in the middle of the room. He's Thorsten?!

I'd done my homework. He wasn't even sixty yet, around the same age as Matthew. In the photos, he looked younger and sharp, but now he seemed to have aged a whole generation beyond Matthew.

Even though I'd read everything I could find on Thorsten, it was hard to reconcile that image with the mant in front of me, focused on his forms like he was one with the air around him. For a second, I wondered if I'd gotten the wrong guy. "So, what do you want?" Thorsten asked, not even pausing his movements, executing each form with precision.

That voice left no doubt-it really was Thorsten Drago

Why he looked so different now, I didn't want to guess took a deep breath and said, "Mr. Drago, hi. I'm Keira Kay."

"I know who you are," he replied, not missing a beat in his routine.

I froze, my heart suddenly racing.

He knew who I was. Did that mean he knew why I was here, too?

Had Cole already tipped him off?

He's mentioned you more than once," Thorsten

how

speechless. My whole mental script

What is it you want to ask me?" Thorsten continued, his hands and feet moving with a surprising mix of strength and grace. He didn't even break

his face directly, he kept to the side, almost like he was

you remember someone named Alan Kay. You talked to him about a contract over a

of smooth, powerful moves-steps. punches, and

before finally slowing down and turning to

his legs together, he raised his hands to chest height and took a series of slow, deep breaths, lifting and

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photos I'd seen, but there was a calmness

lot about a person by looking at their face, and his showed

realized he was regulating

I

dying for answers, I

opened

a chill down my spine, making my throat tighten and the

towel. Thorsten took it and

answer my question, just