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The small comments were going to happen throughout the night. Micha was growing more hostile with everyone of them though by the end of the night. They were not directed toward him but slipped into small talk that he was overhearing. He had thought he knew these people and now he was finding he had no idea who they really were.

Women would throw themselves at him. They didn’t care if it was painfully obvious that he wasn’t remotely looking for a bed partner or a distraction. It seemed the filter he had placed over his eyes to live in the city was falling off. Piece by piece he was caving into a new form of a man. The kind of man that would do anything to protect one small woman. He could feel every comment make his blood boil more.

It wasn’t until he looked around and saw his family watching him with dif