"You are making it incredibly difficult not to take your suggestion personally, husband." Angel warned in a tone that should be far too familiar at this point. "Why, exactly, do you want to avoid this party so badly?" She found his avoidance exhausting, but it was his constant lies of omtion that bothered her most.

Her discussion with Felix has proven inconclusive, and she was at a loss at how to proceed in her own floundering marriage. And why the bloody hell did Emrys have to be so meek about the whole thing?

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