"If he's still preaching his women hating ways around here, you still have the chance to end his sermon," Lindsey replied and shrugged, grinning at her reaction. "Fine. I do have an unhealthy tendency to annoy what's bigger and more powerful than me."
He stared at a point just over her shoulder, mentally composing how he was going to answer that question. "We are people who have been subjected to situations wherein we gave up certain traits in order to achieve what we wanted or to survive," he finally answered.