The look in Brian's eyes turned Kira's stomach.
It always did. There was something in the way he looked at her that made her skin want to crawl off her body and find somewhere cleaner to be.
She lifted her chin, fixed her gaze straight ahead, and moved to walk past him without giving him so much as a word.
Brian's hand shot out and caught her arm.
"Not so fast."
He pulled her back, and before she could right herself he had pinned her to the wall, one arm braced beside her head, his body crowding in close enough that she had nowhere left to go. He leaned in until his face was almost touching hers.
Kira's knee came up fast, aimed straight for straight for his groin.
Brian shifted his hips and blocked it without even looking down, pressing her harder into the wall with his weight.
"Do you think I'm a fool?" he murmured, smiling. "I've been watching you long enough to know exactly what you'll do before you do it."
Kira shoved against his chest. He did not move an inch.
