"Twisting your arm?" she asked with some feigned surprise. "You are so dramatic. I always thought that was my gift."

And Warren's, though she wisely kept that to herself.

"I guess since you're so nice to agree to it that I'll have to find a way to compensate for the trouble." Voile nodded, as if confirming it with herself. "I'll find something at some point in time for the contest."

Something that was not going to be her coming onto him, surely.