"She wasn't wrong, you and I would make quite the pair." Not that Zacharias could imagine many purebloods in this day and age who were jumping with excitement about being expected to marry from a small class of people trying to keep family lines not too muddled if they could.
"Not that I have any interest in any of it, save having my own mother continue to leave me to my own devices." And he was sure she was aware that was a somewhat futile attempt. He might not have been some woman expected to have children and be all sorts of proper, but that didn't mean he was free from expectations. "However, we might be able to buy us some leeway if we appear to be going along with this foolish design."
It was against just about everything he stood for, but in order to win you had to play the game even if you didn't like the rules.