Shadow Mountain Night Cafe for lonely cynics

her barbed words found their mark; he evidenced this with a mere, lingering blink, the only sign of his surprise.
"i am pragmatic, sarah," came his crisp and affronted rejoinder. "you perhaps make the mistake of believing i would not first enter into a consensual contract, that i vould promise romance vhere there is none, that i seek to offer no benefit in return."
having never been accused of cruelty before, mahler found he did not at all care for the sensation. "i have raised my late brother's children these past months as my own; i vould do no less for those i sired myself."