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He turned around. Her sky blue eyes were wide open and she was smirking. “Well?”
He bristled. “Th-that’s none of your business.” Yeah, that was real smooth, huh, Kenning?
A thought occurred to him: he almost never appeared outside of videos for the Black Hat Organization or when dealing with other villains or when buying groceries. So- “How do you know how many doctorates I have anyway?”
“Your nameplate says Doctor,” she attempted to shrug, only to find her shoulders bound. “And judging by all the different kinds of, eh, stuff you have here, I figured you probably have more than one. Mostly I just wanted to try being witty for once. Now, any chance you could untie me here, Doc?” She smiled sweetly.
If what she said was true, she had good observational skills, he’d give her that. And she looked cute when she smiled. But unfortunately for her, he had resolve.
“Not a chance.”
She pouted and he chuckled. “Not used to not getting your way, huh?” A girl like her, she was probably used to being handed whatever she wanted on a silver platter. True, he hadn’t found anything about her family online, but someone in her line of work, it seemed like a reasonable assumption.
“More like I’m used to creepy fanboys, but I’ve never had one of them actually kidnap me before now.” She retorted and he stopped laughing and started scowling.
“I’m not interested in you, I’m interested in your boyfriend.”
“Oh.” She raised her eyebrows. “I mean, I’ve kind of suspected he’s bi for a while now, but he hasn’t said anything. You didn’t have to kidnap me though, he has a fansite, you could just ask-”
“Not what I meant!” He snapped, mortified.
“Well, what did you mean?” She huffed.
Perfect. Now he could give her the speech he had been rehearsing.
“I mean,” he lowered his voice. “I’m going to put you on the phone with that imbecile and you’re going to tell him to come here if he ever wants to see you again.” He walked over to her, just centimeters from her ear. “Understand?”
She shivered and he smirked.
“Fine. But you’ll have to dial.”