He watched me suppress the many things I wanted to say about that with the slight curve of one eyebrow that meant he was trying to read my face.
“I’m giving you a rare opportunity here, Mina,” he said. “You get to take advantage of me admitting I was kinda wrong. Just tell me what I have to do to make you stop hating me. Or I can make some suggestions. For a start, this is a party. Everyone’s supposed to have fun, not just the birthday boy. You ever even had a drink in your life?”
I allowed myself a sigh to relieve a little tension before saying what I’d meant to say from the start.
“You’re already in,” I said. “You don’t have to campaign to me. And believe me, if I were going to waste energy ‘hating’ things, you’d be a footnote on my list. You just have to stay human, never collaborate
