If she had to endure one more minute of Ellory she was going to snap and throttle her in front of the whole family. That would hardly go down well, even if Tiberius might want her dead almost as much as she did, Tig doubted he'd approve. Not that she needed his approval or cared about it.

So as was becoming something of a custom whenever she spotted Ellory, Tig left the room and sought sanctuary literally anywhere else. That anywhere else presently just so happened to be the same place as Cassius Lestrange. She couldn't decide whether this was a good or bad thing, not until he started to offer her a cigarette and she decided it was probably leaning more towards okay. She hadn't developed a taste for the things but they did make her feel rebellious and oddly sophisticated.

Needless to say Tig accepted the cigarette. "What's brought you out here this time?"

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