Aslan shot Nisa a flat look. If under some sort of parallel circumstances, Aslan had been in Nisa’s position and Baba had thrown her husband at him? Hey. Aslan would have kept him. If Nisa had thrown her husband to him second-hand, all things given plus a requited attraction – he still would have kept him. The guy had a nice ass.

Profane things together, he was smart enough not to correct.

Didn’t raise to her defense, lest he draw attention to who she had been fretting over in public.

“And what do I normally lean toward, my sharp-eyed sister?”