any day now

Erebos was smart and perhaps she should have known that he would realize what she was up to, that she had bathed to hide Stolas' scent on her. Did it matter, though? Had he not done the same? She hadn't lashed out when he went off with that woman so what, he was jealous now that he didn't have that rogue bitch to cuddle with at night? Widow almost laughed at his demand, but instead her lips curled and she snarled in return. How dare he demand her to be submissive to him, who did he think he was?

The urge to smack him and give him a matching scar on his other cheek was strong but she held her position firm before him, not moving and certainly not bending over. No. She had considered letting him have her more intimately than the previous times, but no, he lost that tonight. Tonight would be nothing but duty for either of them. She didn't go as far to believe that she was having regrets caring about him, but this certainly put a single strike under his name, a tally she wouldn't forget.

"Do you forget who you're speaking to?" she hissed as her tail lashed. "You do not tell me what to do," her teeth clicked together as her jaw snapped shut, argent eyes burning with an intense fire as she held back from scarring him despite her claws digging into the earth of his den. "Now, would you like to try that again or would you like to continue down this hypocritical path you've chosen?"

"Speech!"