Damen shrugged and set the wine aside. He'd poured it from a single decanter, if Laurent was worried about it being poisoned - as if Damen would ever resort to something as cowardly and underhanded as poison to kill someone - but...it didn't matter.

Still angry then. Laurent's idea of acceptable behavior in Damen's eyes was such utter nonsense, Damen would have laughed if things hadn't been so dire between them. "That's a little extreme, don't you think?"

He stared up at his husband. "Fresh out of civility for the day?" Damen didn't move.