The betrayal on his face was instantaneous.
“No,” he said immediately. “You wouldn’t dare.”
I smiled sweetly.
“I just did.”
The look of devastation crossing his face almost made me cave immediately.
Almost.
Then suddenly he lunged toward me.
“Oh no you don’t.”
I yelped and darted backward instantly as he reached for me again.
“Thoren!”
“Give me back my stomach privileges.”
“They were revoked!”
“Unfairly!”
“You brought this upon yourself!”
Laughter burst out of me helplessly as I backed around the sitting area furniture while he followed with the determined focus of a man reclaiming stolen territory.
“You are behaving like a toddler,” I informed him between laughs.
“And you are running.”
“I am speed walking.”
“You are absolutely running.”
“I am escaping oppression.”
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