"You may be able to push him off so easy, Niks, but the man has made threats to my life and well being. He hates me, and doesn't hide that fact. If you're not going to be concerned about it, then I'll just have to be concerned for the both of us."
He already was, so it wasn't exactly pushing anything further. Her nonchalance about the whole matter was a little strange, he thought. Or was it? It did fit into her new fae-ish way of looking at the world.
What she said about wanting him in her life, wanting to be very close to - hoping, that was the word she used - sank deep into Evan's brain.