I Refuse this Late
"Sorry, there's nothing I want."
Stella lifted a brow suspiciously, and growled threateningly, "I gave you a chance but you spurned it. Just don't bother me later—I'm not that patient."
"No, I won't," I replied quietly.
All I wanted was for her to leave right then.
"You'd better not," she snorted.
For her part, she didn't insist—perhaps because she was reluctant to reward me in the first place.
She strode off, but paused a few paces away, "And don't bother Uriah anymore. There's nothing between us."