felt the need to say something, so I went with what came naturally. “If we don’t make it out of this, Your Royal Grouchiness, it has not been nice working with you.” What a bold-faced lie. Those last few weeks… I’d never felt so alive. But I would take that secret to my grave. Dimitri grunted. “Same to you, devil woman.” Our gazes clashed. He could see I was full of shit. I could see he was full of shit. Neither of us acknowledged it. What cowards we were.
