Guarding Jess by Shannon Curtis

Author:Shannon Curtis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Noah had noticed him a while back. The man had paid a lot of attention to Jessica, and then had followed them as they’d walked to the parking garage. Now he was making his move.

Noah reacted instantly. He raised his arms and braced them. The figure ran into them, gasping as Noah hit him in the sternum. Noah twisted his fists and grabbed clothing. He neatly kicked his leg out and used the guy’s momentum to flip him onto his back.

“Try to pick on a woman, will you?” Noah said harshly.

The guy went down with a thud. His breath wheezed out. He tried to raise his arms in a defensive move. Noah quickly and forcefully slapped his arms out of the way. He grabbed the jersey and rolled the guy over, shoving him face down on the ground. He placed his knee on his back.

“Hey, wait,” the man choked.

Noah grabbed one of his arms and twisted it up his back.

“Who are you?” Adrenaline pumped through his veins. Noah patted the guy down for weapons. He wasn’t going to let this punk surprise him. He wanted to punch him. Hell, if this was the man who had terrorized Jessica for the last four months, he wanted to do a lot more than just punch. He gritted his teeth. His arm ached, but he wasn’t about to let go. He grabbed the guy’s thumb and twisted it into a lock that would take only minimum effort to break the digit.

Passersby began to stop and stare.

“Ow, dammit. Jessica.”

“Noah, wait.” Jessica ran up to him.

“Stay back.”

“Lemme up.”

“AJ?” Jessica breathed as she bent over to look at her assailant’s face.

Noah’s brows snapped into a scowl. “Damn it, I told you to stay back.”

“Wait, I know him,” Jessica told him, her face pale.

“Most victims know their stalkers,” Noah gritted at her. Damn, didn’t the woman know to run away from danger, not to it?

“Hey, who you callin’ a stalker?” the man beneath him cried out.

“AJ? What are you doing?” She turned to Noah. “He’s one of my students.” She flicked a glance at the growing crowd. She paused as though something had caught her eye, then shook her head and turned back to them.

“Get your boyfriend off me,” the guy screamed, and he tried to wriggle out from under him. Noah tightened his grip and he yelped.

“It’s okay, AJ,” Jessica said, and turned her gaze to Noah.

Noah rolled his eyes. “No, it’s not okay, Jessica. This guy was about to attack you.”

“Hey, I wasn’t going to attack nobody,” the guy exclaimed.

“Anybody,” Jessica corrected automatically. Noah frowned. She wanted to correct her stalker’s grammar?

“I just wanted to talk,” the guy called over his shoulder.

Noah tightened his grip and satisfaction flared at the guy’s cry of pain. “So talk,” he growled. “Start with the rock. Why did you throw it through the window? Do you think that’s how real men communicate?” Anger at what this young man had put Jessica through welled up in him.

The guy tried to look at Noah over his shoulder, the whites of his eyes bright with shock and fear.

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