...Pumpkin was preferable to babe, but it would have to be a cold day in several hells because she confessed to that little secret. For now, she made do with dramatic roll of her eyes.

"Of course you did. 'Cause you're kind of an asshole." Only he just might maybe be less of one now. That's what she wanted to know. What she wanted to find out. "Thank God it was Sparrow in my skin -- at least he responds well to a decent chastising."