When Gracia not only released Ruth Ann but gave her a gentle push back in Havoc's direction with an order to go back and get to talking with him again, Ruth Ann gave the other woman a very suspicious and evil sort of glare, which was met with a brilliant, cheery, and very cocky grin from Gracia.
Hmph. Roy was just lucky that Ruth Ann loved him enough to refrain from giving not only him, but his friends a very thorough smackdown. She'd hoped that adulthood would have tempered a bit of that natural pain in the ass condition that little brothers seemed to have. No such luck.
"What was all that about?" Ruth Ann asked Havoc as she returned, her arms crossed, "and should I be apologizing for my brother?"