He all but flailed as she took a step away from him. Regulus quickly closed the space between them as the vultures all took steps forward. "Not on," he muttered through gritted teeth. Merlin, she could be down right infuriating at times.
Emotions were too messy for the likes of them. Each had enough baggage to bury the other in. He knew what was expected of him in only a month's time. He also knew what had happened to her mother. He knew that civility was the only thing that could possibly work because of this. So he kept it up, if only for her sake at the moment.
"Me? I am undeniably faithful to whatever I'm given," he said as sarcastically as he could manage. To Regulus's credit, however, he hadn't danced with another girl in years. Whether or not Dorcas knew this was another story entirely.