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was only because it had been so long since a man had touched her or been close to her. She promised herself that things would be fine at the dojo. She would be in her office or off premises working, and Koichi would have Jake in training all the time, so there was no chance of them having to meet and her feeling so flustered again. It wasn’t going to happen. She had far too much at stake to let a hot and wild man weave his way into her arms and risk destroying any of it.
    She picked up her phone and was thankful that Bonnie answered it so quickly. “Hey Lisa, what are you up to?” she asked cheerfully.
    Lisa couldn’t hold back the frustrated sigh that gushed from her. “Ugh!” she groaned, “I just need to vent! I found this guy; he’s a fighter. He’s a street fighter. He’s good, but he doesn’t really know much, and I thought that maybe he could come to the dojo to train and fight for us. I took him in and he sparred with Koichi, and he was accepted.”
    Bonnie spoke with a confused voice. “So… what’s the problem?”
    “The problem is that he keeps coming on to me, and I mean in a huge way, like he’s just bent on it, and I can’t… I can’t have that!” Lisa frowned and gripped her steering wheel a little tighter.
    Bonnie giggled. “Is he hot?”
    “Bonnie!” Lisa snapped at her best friend.
    “What? Is he hot? He must be. You never get worked up over any of the guys there. That’s always been a mystery to me. I don’t understand that. Rooms full of hot, fit, martial arts fighters, and you never ever go for them.” Bonnie wasn’t going to let it go.
    “Bonnie! I can’t do that! You know better than anyone that I have an obligation and duty to that place, and to my family! I have no business doing anything… other than business there! I can’t do that! Plus…” she shook her head, not allowing herself to even think of it, “plus this guy is trouble. Or at least… he seems like he could be.
    I have this gut feeling that I should just back off and let him train and fight and just not… ever… never. Never! It wouldn’t be good. He just… god, he comes on so strong! I’m going to have to just make it very clear to him that there’s no chance, no way at all, ever, that anything can happen between us.” She nodded her head resolutely. That was exactly what she was going to do.
    “So, are you trying to convince me, or yourself? Because… I think he must be pretty hot, and I think that you wouldn’t be so upset if you didn’t feel something back for him. He must have flipped your switch, honey, or you’d never be so worked up. In fact, I can’t remember the last time you got so worked up over a guy just after meeting him.” She chuckled softly. “Can’t you just… play around a little with him? Can’t you just… have a good time and leave it at that? Friends with benefits or something? Come on… girl, it’s been so long for you, I wonder if you’ve forgotten how to-” Bonnie was cut short.
    “I have not forgotten anything, I just have a good head on my shoulders and I never get involved with the guys at the dojo, and I have to stay focused. I’m not interested in him, not at all. I’m just mad because he wouldn’t quit hitting on me. That’s all it is. That’s it.” Lisa waved her hand in the air and shook her head emphatically, promising herself that she wasn’t at all interested in Jake. No matter what he looked like and no matter how he made her feel.
    “Uh huh.” Bonnie teased her. “Well, you do whatever you have to do. Just… don’t wipe him completely off the chart if there’s a spark there, okay? Don’t take that away from yourself.”
    “I’m not going to mix business and pleasure, Bonnie. No way,” she vowed with a sigh.
    She pulled into her driveway and up to the large home at the end of it. As she got out of her car, she changed the subject, asking Bonnie how she was, and listening to her friend tell her all about things that had nothing