“What do you want?” he asked, his voice dry and papery. Everything, I could have said, but I only smiled. “Let’s start with what you’re never, ever going to do to me.” No maids, no accents, no sham marriage, no more attempts to replace me with imitations, and then I paused. Su Tong Lin had never gotten to ride off in the sunset with a handsome hero, and now that I had the chance, I wasn’t sure I wanted to. “Monsters, however, are just fine,” I said finally. “I’d like to see more monsters.”
