Karen Chance, Curse the Dawn

"This isn't sex."I blinked. "Oh. Then what is it"An emergency!"I started to argue and then thought twice about it. Considering what Mircea would do to Pritkin if he ever found out about this... Yeah. Emergency sounded good."

"He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they'I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed.'You shaved my legs?!'Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be."