Re: [declan and clementine, marvel]
[She faced that glance straight on, and even telling he was getting fussed didn't make her take back the asking about his wife.] I'm curious who could get you to the altar. Ain't nothing wrong with that. [She didn't even protest hard, because that was a fine thing to be curious 'bout, least she reckoned it was. Married brother, and her not knowing a thing about it, that called for some asking.] I don't romanticize a thing. Romance is for folks that ain't grown up and don't know better, sugar. [She said that real straight, on account of believing it to her toes. Clementine, she didn't believe in fairytales, not a damn bit.] Only folks I know that loved each other true were Lore and Graham, and all it got my sister was dead.
[He sped up, and it distracted her for a second, just long enough to make her look on at the road and give him a chance to ask after Alexander. She turned another one of them surprised looks at him, this one with a real perfectly waxed brow arching.] He didn't tell you all the horrible things I did right off? [She scoffed, and she looked out the window.]
Chloe wanted that man back, Neil, you know, the one she dated in college. Man didn't want to go, and they hired some hit man to take out Neil's woman, a slip of a crackwhore, and Chloe lied to me and said the girl was threatening her some. I felt guilty 'bout it once I learned she was just a child, and Chloe kept on, trying to stab Neil, hiring another hitman, and I gave them leverage to get her to stop, the other family. Alexander was bedding Chloe by then, and he got real fussed at me, ran me over with his Hummer. The crackwhore's brother shot Jude. It was all a real mess. Good thing you weren't here for it any.