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– Honestly, – his voice sounds a little puzzled after a pause, “I didn’t realize the depth of your animosity toward my people. I daresay it couldn’t have taken on such proportions just because of my person, though I’d be flattered.

Lord, he has a… quite a way with words.

I delay the more enthusiastic train of thought in time, because I don’t want to allow it even inside my head. Nothing, no possible positive qualities of this moonshiner can undo two things-the fact that he and I are irreconcilable enemies, and the fact that he is a moonshiner.

– I hate to disappoint you, but you are not the first moonshiner to ruin the lives of me and my loved ones.

– You seem to me to be enjoying upsetting me right now, – Rind teased. – Or you disguised the misery very well.

I cover my mouth with my palm again, literally clamping my lips to my teeth in an involuntary grin. I need to end this conversation before it has irreparable consequences for me in the form of a sudden eruption of sympathy for this heartless type.