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was, then it would be more plausible that he hired someone to do the dirty work. Hell, his daddy could probably buy him out of any scrape he found himself in.
     
                  I found Anna still in the classroom doing the exact thing I told her not to do, talking to Martin.  He sat next to her at her table, leaning close into her. I couldn’t see her face, but I saw his. Scrunched up with narrow eyes. He was pissed about something. 
     
                  Anna shook her head at him and got up, putting the chair between them. “It’s not my fault, Martin. I’m not switching with you, please stop asking me. The answer is still no.”
     
                  “You think I don’t know how you got picked over there?” His accusation sent my body into protective mode. Anna would be the last person in the world to use anything other than her skills and brains to achieve a goal. I doubted if she even knew how to use her body to manipulate someone. Although she definitely had the body to use if she wanted to do that.
     
                  “If you think I could so easily get the internship by flaunting my chest around, why would you want to work there? How would you ever make partner or get any good clients if the company valued sex over brains? Just face it, they wanted me because I impressed them more. My designs were more in line with their vision and my grades are higher.” Good for her! I almost stopped myself from walking in the room. Almost. She held her own pretty well, but Martin’s face suggested he was about to spew some venomous shit, and I wouldn’t let her hear that. Not from him.
     
                  “Anna?” I stepped between them, shoving the chair out of my way. She gave me her best exasperated look, but underneath the eye roll I saw the truth. Relief. If nothing else, I saved her from that goon’s verbal attack.
     
                  “Who’s this?” Martin snorted, making a show of looking me up and down. Like I couldn’t squeeze his guts out of his nose with my hands. The man barely stood taller than Anna, and I doubted he weighed much more than her, too. The balls this kid had glaring up at me. He probably never came across someone who didn’t back down from him just by waving his name and money at them. Well, he had never met me before.
     
                  “Jackson, let’s just go.” She tugged on my arm, but I already had Martin in my sights. I squared off with him, staring down at him with as calm of an expression as I could muster. His oversized Adam’s apple bobbed when he swallowed hard.
     
                  “Stay clear of her, you got that? Accept defeat like a man, and back the fuck off.” Anna’s nails dug into me, but I ignored it. 
     
                  “You her bodyguard or something? I heard she had a little accident yesterday, she need someone to carry her books to class?” He tried, but the little waver in his voice gave him away.
     
                  “Jackson. Please. Let’s just go.” She tugged on me again, but I only moved closer to Martin.
     
                  “You stay away from her. I’m not going to tell you again. If I see you so much as breathe in her direction, you and I will have words.” Her nails really dug in then. My skin burned under her abuse.
     
                  “Yeah, I got it.” He leaned to the left, trying to see Anna behind me. “Maybe your goon squad here helped you during your interview?”
     
                  “Seriously? I’m right fucking here.” I growled and took another step, my fists at the ready. He backed off, slinging his bag over his shoulder and rounding the table.
     
                  “I got it, I got it. I’ll stay clear of your princess. Don’t worry, your girlfriend is safe from me.” His sneer didn’t sit right with me, but when I turned to follow him,