Raellyn asked, struggling to respond in a casual tone but the tension beneath it was unmistakable. She reminded herself over and over that she couldn’t let herself be swept away in this kind of conversation. She had to remember who she was now and things between them were no longer the same. Everything had shifted and more importantly, she need remember that everything had changed a full one hundred and eighty degrees.
"I used to," Arsene admitted, his voice low and grave, like the words were being torn from somewhere buried deep inside, "But I don’t think it would do either of us any good if I admitted that now. By the way, you didn’t bring any weapons tonight, did you?" His attempt at humor sliced through the heaviness in the room, but Raellyn couldn’t bring herself to laugh.
"No, I di
