Rising Sun Valley the knife's edge

Jace stared at her and spoke quietly Please don't Bazi. I really don't like being snarled at. It was a quiet warning, letting her know he was keeping control but only just. He knew it was faint, but it was there all the same. What did she want from him! He couldn't be perfect for everyone, he couldn't do what everyone wanted. He stared at her at her next question.

He sighed again Bazi you aren't listening. She was not listening to me, nothing that I said mattered, do you understand. The minute I told her that I wouldn't kill him nothing else mattered, it was moot. She did not listen to me about anything, what makes you think she would have listened to that, she wanted one of us to die and i refused to fight to the death and she got pissed off! He shook his head he was agitated so freaking agitated and he was tired of being a gentleman and he was tired of playing nice, she wasn't going to listen any better than her stubborn red furred leader and he was tired of it. He shook his head and his shoulders and wondered what else he could possible say. She obvious was lookiing for a reason to blame him so he might as well give her one, but what he didn't know.