Like I had just said something offensive, like I had just stepped out of line in a way she wasn’t going to tolerate, and I stopped again without even thinking about it, because there was something in that look that didn’t invite pushing, didn’t invite testing.
“I’m used to much worse,” she hissed, her voice sharp enough to cut. “A little nip won’t affect me.”
She was used to much worse. I gritted my teeth and I'm pretty sure if I'd been a dragon there would have been smoke erupting from my nostrils. They were all so lucky to be all dead by now because...
“I’m not sure if you said we’re mates because you wanted to scare him or—” she continued, crushing my heart a bit more in the process. She couldn't feel me.
“No.”
The word came out before she could finish, sharper than I intended, edg
