'You talk like I had a choice,' he mutters. But the fact is, he might have been able to keep a secret like that even if he had known. He learned pretty early on to keep his mouth shut.

There's an amused look on his face though.

'See, if you keep talking as plain as that, we might just manage to get through whole days without a fight.'

Her ability to rattle on never failed to astound him. And annoy him. Some of it was even in French, for Christ's sake!