“Let me remind you that my girls crave me. They want me, not just for the term of our contract, but forever.” His voice lowered, as if one could be hiding in the bushes watching us. “If they saw this…saw us, you’d probably not be well-liked. They’d be…” He smiled slow and wolf-like. “Jealous.” “Jealous because I’ve somehow caught the attention of a monster? What poor, delusional souls.”

