"I thought the bargain was he delivers, I get him something else." He cocked his head sideways. "Are you saying now I have to pay up front?" He crossed his arms as straight as he was able to stand.
"I have something in mind. But," he wagged a finger not yet paying attention to her wandering eyes, "I want more than your word that this gets done. That I'm not some toy you and your brother laugh at." He needed her to give him something...which when her emerald eyes locked on him he threw his head to the side. "Give it to me on writing." Or she would need to nail him with something just as concrete.