Watch yourself, Brown, John thought as he stepped behind Ileana. "Whenever you're ready," he told her, and he shook his head. "Naw, not a cop. I was part of the Marines for a while." He left out the face that he had been part of the Royal Marines. That would say he was English, and he was doing his damnedest to adhere to the rules that governed him. It didn't matter that she was, in his opinion, just a kid. Kids could do just as much damage as adults.
He shrugged. "But the Marines really weren't my thing. I stuck around long enough to learn how to toss people around and shoot a gun or two." He hadn't even finished basic training. Well, not officially. He had stayed until that last week and then just abandoned them. "Didn't stop me from having my own fun, though," he added with a laugh. Oh, the stories he could tell her.