“Huh?” Andrea asks.
“I’m honored he considers me a worthy opponent,” Charles laughs.
Lance looks down on almost everyone. The fact that he considers Charles a threat means he sees the other man as almost an equal.
Andrea doesn’t know what to say to Charles. It makes her uncomfortable when Charles talks like that.
“I’m not expecting anything in return you know,” he says sensing her discomfort, “I’m helping you because we’re friends.”
He knows how hard she resists Lance, and he’s afraid that she’d refuse his help if she knew the true extent of his feeling for her. The toxin in her blood has somehow turned her into a very unyielding and determined woman.
“It’s probably the toxin that’s made Lance so crazy about her,” Charles thinks wryly, “Now that she’s so mysterious and elusive she
