I looked hard at Gus, trying to get a read on him. His words and posture were teasing and lackadaisical, but for some reason the way he looked at me seemed anything but.
"Could you not make me sound as shallow as a puddle?" I said.
"If you were anywhere close to being that shallow, you'd have married the Duke by now."
"Ugh, tch, why are you talking to me about this? You and Nehcor both, it's like you're both trying to get me married."
"Because that would fix ALL of your problems! And if Nehcor nagged you to get married, why didn't you? He's freaking GOD."
"He didn't tell me to get married, he just...encouraged it."
"Same thing. Look, I can already guess what happened. Horny Brain came over to beg you to marry him, you said no, he tried to throw a fit, and Derrick did what he did to
