"I know, right? I kicked Ace overboard the first time he did that to me. The second time he just straight up used his tongue and I forgot what I was yelling at him for. God damn brat," Marco was deadpan, but there was mixture of annoyance and amusement in his tone.

He fluttered his eyelashes at Thatch. "She knows where to find me. It's her night out with the boyfriend." That was a joke, but Marco didn't stop joking for much of anything usually.

"Talk, Skyscraper Hair. We can talk about the scar, we can talk about the panic attacks, we can talk about the last five years in this world, but talk."