'Are you threatening me?'
Daisy kept her composure locked in place throughout the mind link, even as her pulse did something she absolutely did not appreciate — that traitorous, uneven thing it had started doing the moment the morning stopped going the way she'd planned.
She kept her face exactly where it needed to be, her expression smooth and unbothered for anyone watching, while underneath it her mind moved fast and quiet. 'Do you honestly think Ravyn would take your word over mine?' She asked through mind link as she pulled back slightly, smoothed the edges of it, and gave the response a little more room to breathe. 'Play this right and I might be able to work on him about easing the punishment.'
Audrey's reply came back without a single beat of hesitation, and the steadiness of it was far worse than anger would have been.
