Claire practiced the motion. Stomp. Elbow back. It was clean. It was sharp. It was a thing of martial-arts beauty.
Mark, still unable to speak, gave a weak thumbs-up. When Teaching Stepmom Self Defense Goes Wrong -...
Claire, wearing her favorite cashmere sweater and holding a can of pepper spray like it was a TV remote, nodded seriously. “So, no going for a nice drive with the kidnapper. Got it.” Claire practiced the motion
He never finished the sentence.
“I told you to start with the ‘verbal de-escalation’ chapter,” Bill said, stepping over Mark to pour himself a whiskey. “But no. You had to go straight to elbows.” still unable to speak