Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Hull suddenly grabbed her hand, catching Susanna completely off guard. "Whoa —what are you doing?" she blurted, startled.

For some reason, watching him hold her hand, she felt like he was almost squeezing it a little too tightly.

Hull gently rubbed her rough palm between his own. "You've gotten tanned. And your hands are all calloused."

Susanna stared at him, speechless.

Tanned? Rough?

Those were basically the worst insults you could throw at a girl. "You... you "

"If you keep training like this, your hands are going to be a mess.”

Susanna's face fell apart. Inside, she was screaming: A mess? Last night he couldn't keep his hands off me, and now he wants to talk about my hands?

Hull looked at her, deadpan. "Are you cursing me out in your head?"

Susanna replied quickly, "No, of course not."

She totally was. Hmph.

Before she could say anything else, the food started arriving.

There was fish chowder, creamy chicken casserole, seaweed salad, papaya yogurt, banana milkshake, and-wait-another papaya dish, and another...

Susanna twitched an eyebrow.

at Hull, barely able to hide her confusion. "Hull, do you have, like, a papaya obsession or

was

grinned. "Susie, it's all for you. Big bro says

about choked on his water. Seriously? After all the times he'd tried to explain things to Barnaby, the guy still hadn't learned a thing. He was about ready to bolt out of the

Susanna's face went scarlet.

Just one glance, and he could see the accusation in her eyes. This

slept with her and now he was going around

even getting the whole crew

a moment late,

her fork down on the plate, huffed loudly,

at how quickly she'd lost her

shot Barnaby a cold

skipped a beat. "Big bro, did I... did I say

was shaky, obviously

God, did Barnaby seriously not

worse than Finley. At least Finley's mouth runs ahead of his brain- he might realize

Barnaby? He

up, shot Barnaby another icy look. "You didn't say anything wrong.

Barnaby: "???"

he could ask what that meant, Hull was already out the