Fight?
He sure didn't have time for that!
He only had time to beat someone up!
"Chani Gordon, you get out of my way!" Rio Gordon exploded with rage; this naive-looking little girl was obviously being bullied and still covering up for the bully, "Owen Hayes, knowing that she likes you, is this how you mistreat her?"
Rio Gordon clearly didn't believe Chani Gordon's claims that nothing had happened between them, firmly trusting what his own ears had heard—the sentence about it being her first time and his need to take responsibility for it!
"Mistreat? Rio Gordon, do you really think that all men mistreat others' feelings like you?"
Owen Hayes gave him a cold look, then raised an eyebrow provocatively, "Not all men are scoundrels like you. The things I have done, I have done; those I haven't, even if the whole world recognizes, I, Owen Hayes, will not admit to them!"