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The compliment made him pause, chin lifting and offering l'seth something few saw. A genuinely pleased smile from the man. Impish, dangerous and mocking tended to describe his smiles but that single word from her delighted him and it showed.

"That is my goal," he said, knowing that she would in the end best him but he would not make a fool of himself before her either. That he wouldn't be able to stomach.

"Come now. That couldn't be all you wanted."