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you, if you decided to get into it. I can help you do that.” She paused once more. “If you want to.”
    That was it. She cast the offer out and waited. There was nothing more that she could say that would change anything about his thoughts or decision. He knew what he needed to know. She watched his eyes and saw him thinking carefully about it.
    Jake stood there before her, staring at her, soaking in every word she had said. Muldoon’s words came back to him, and he knew that the old man had been right. There could be more out there for him. He wasn’t ever going to get anywhere street fighting. He wasn’t ever going to get anywhere working on cars and sparring at the old gym. He realized as gazed back at Lisa, that what she was offering him might very well be his one and only shot at a real future; a future outside of and away from every part of his life that he knew.
    A shot at a real life, and not only a real life, but a life where he could be paid big money to fight, rather than hoping there was a good sized crowd on the sidewalk who wanted to bet on him and give Evan a few dollars in hopes that Jake would win.
    He nodded, and his tone became somewhat serious. “Yeah, I am interested. So…” he hesitated and tipped his head a little. “Should we go now to go see the dojo?” he asked uncertainly.
    She smiled a little for the first time and all of his attention shifted to her full rounded lips. “Yes, we should go right now. I’m leaving. Are you coming with me?” He felt a shot of adrenaline and something like hot desire blaze through him as his eyes moved over her face and he looked into her black eyes again.
    “Yeah. I’m definitely coming with you.” At that moment, he would have followed her to the ends of the earth if she had had the notion.
    She turned on the spot and headed toward the door, and he grabbed his bag and followed after her, taking in every inch of her body as she walked away from him. He let out a long slow breath and shook his head. If she was going to be around the dojo at all, he was going to make her a prime target. Just one look at her told him he could spend days running his hands all over her body and not get enough of her.
    She held the door open for him when they reached it, and as she did so, she glanced at him over her shoulder and saw that he was checking her out. He grinned and she looked away from him, feeling her cheeks warm as she walked to the car. She knew she was going to have to keep clear boundaries with him if he did wind up fighting at the dojo. They got into her car and buckled up, and he looked around at it and raised an eyebrow. “This is a nice car,” he said appreciatively. He’d seen cars like hers in magazines, but had never been in one, and had certainly never worked on one.
    She slipped her sunglasses on and shot him a smile. “It is a nice car,” she answered, shooting him a smile. “Win a competition and you can buy one for yourself if you want to.” She took off down the road.
    Jake chuckled and gave a nod. He looked out of the window. He knew what she was saying and what she was doing, but he didn’t want to let himself dream too much or think of what may come. He didn’t want to think past the present and what was happening just then, and  looked over at Lisa and admired the shape and length of her legs that were showing just a little bit more as she sat in the driver’s seat. Skirts had a way of rising up when a lady sat, and he smiled and lifted his eyes to look at her face.
    “So, Lisa… do you have a boyfriend?” he lifted his chin, hoping that she would say no, and not really caring if she said yes. He was still going to go after her, no matter what the answer was, but he knew it would probably be a lot easier to go for her if she didn’t have one at all, or if she was mad at the guy who she was with. He was going to find a way.
    Lisa hadn’t expected him to come on to her quite that strong that fast, but she kept her guard up.