"What would you have done if he had overpowered you?" His voice rises as he imagines the scene and what could have happened. "What would you have done if he had been a stronger man? One whom feeble punches and jabbing wouldn't have stopped?"

"Fee…feeble? The arrogant idiot," Marissa thought in rage as she moved toward him to show him how feeble her punch could be. Bernard easily captured her hand in his, though, and that enraged her more, especially since he captured her other hand effortlessly as well when she raised it to him. When she started struggling to release her hands and he wouldn't let go, she gave...