See this, this right here was exactly what was irritating Joseph so much. He had come all the way in the house and needed to look for Daisy to find her. If not for the flame to catch her attention he was positive that she would have stayed right where she was stood and not looked at him at all. He told her that everything was just going to go back to normal, she agreed, and then she went and did this. It was truly like she was deliberately trying to piss him off more. Joseph would have believed it of her if not for the way her inner flame was truly different than it was supposed to be. The last time he had sensed it like this had been when she had been in the hospital because of him. And she's the idiot who went and made the mistake. I won't be punished for it. "I was thinking about asking her to," Joseph replied, his grin the same as before. He even brought his hand up to brush back a piece of her hair, trailing his finger down the side of her face when he was done. Once it would have taken less than that to have Daisy right there like an angry, yapping dog ready to take down whatever was threatening her status. The other week with Antonin it had taken less. "Do you want to stay for dinner, Marie?"
Marie was stiff at his side, her eyes latched onto Daisy. The tension in the air between the two of them could have been sliced with a knife and Joseph loved it. Anything was better than the nothing that was there when it was just him and Daisy. "Really don't want to eat with your house-girl. Can't she leave?"
Joseph shook his head. "No, she's staying right here. We could always go upstairs while she finishes dinner. I've been lonely." It had been a week since anything had happened between him and Daisy. A week. Joseph was not used to going that long. Sure, he had had Marie that night he had found out about what Daisy had done, but since? Joseph was used to Daisy hanging off him, waking him up practically every morning by smothering him with affection. It got annoying fast and he was usually less than fond of it, but when it was gone? He started to wonder if maybe she had decided to go back to that other man. No, Bandit would have told him, so there was no reason for it. He released Marie and walked over to Daisy, circling around her and touching one too-hot hand against her shoulder. The second he touched her skin he reeled mentally, hearing a brief assault of voices from times in the past. That threw him off and for a moment he said nothing, just standing still while he pushed the voices back and away. "How's that sound to you?" His voice was a little quieter, though that was unconscious since he gave no damn's at all if Marie heard what he was saying. "Since you can't act right, I'll just keep Marie around. Then you can run back to your little preacher and do whatever you want." He pressed his head to the side of Daisy's, going so far as to kiss her ear, knowing it would likely hurt because he had deliberately heated himself up.