The Heiress Returns: Reclaiming My Legacy
I said, looping my arm through his free one, "for someone who said costume parties were 'juvenile,' you're really committing to being a disembodied hand."
He wiggled the prosthetic fingers at me menacingly. "Well, Miss Wednesday," he said in an exaggerated creepy voice, "you insisted I match your aesthetic. I couldn't say no to the darkness."
"You never say no to me," I teased, adjusting the collar of my black Wednesday Addams dress.
"That's because you're genuinely terrifying when you don't get your way," he said, his tone affectionate despite the words. "It's one of your more attractive qualities."