"Then we'll stick together and punish him for that last one."

"Oh c'mon," Kit scoffs, but he's laughing as he does so, his grin wide and amiable, even though Myr can't see it. "Go easy on me, I'm but one man here."

He accepts the cards when Cade hands them over, fitting them neatly back into the deck to be shuffled. He arches his eyebrows, not missing the tone in Cade's voice. "So you're stuck as a babysitter then," he observes dryly. Looking up the stairs after Callum one more time, he notes, "Seems like he's just fine on his own here."