I couldn’t think of a witty enough answer, and so I pinched her forearm until she let go. “Get out of my head! I want to go home. I didn’t bar my teeth anyway, so shut up.”
She wobbled her head in the same way as Nora and mimicked my voice. “I want to go home. Why? Because they do as you say without question and treat you like a silly princess? But you’re no princess and neither do you want unconditional obeyance. Who would?” she nipped my ear lobe with her teeth suddenly. “You want a woman who’ll answer back and respect you enough to tell you the truth. Don’t you?”
I shook my head silently, recognizing the truth behind her brazen words. “What do you mean?”
“Nobody has seen you before I did—and wanted to kiss her. Looked beneath the stern soldier and found a woman who wants to chase and
