Zeus stared at me, humor forgotten. “Boy’s got it bad for you, Teach. He’s made no fuckin’ bones about it. He wants you. In his mind, it’s a done deal. Raised ’em spoiled but you can’t blame me. My ex-wife is a crazy cunt, so I mighta overcompensated, but he’s a good kid, a good son and brother, and one day he’ll be a good man for The Fallen. He’d make a damn good partner too, all that love and loyalty wound up in him just waitin’ to unspool and attach itself to the right people.”
