A Touch of Sloth
Layne Daniels

They send a lackey to retrieve me. His plan is to bring me back into the family fold. My plan is to drive him right back into the den of vipers the rest of them are so happy to writhe around in. I didn't expect him to see through all my artifices to find the real me, or to break down my walls the way he has. Definitely didn't expect him to be the type to figure out exactly what I need in a relationship and be so frustratingly capable of providing it.
He'll lose everything he's been working toward if he can't return me to their gilded cage. I'll lose myself if I let him. Stalemate.