Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.

“By now, all three Brannick women—all four, if you counted Mom—were staring at m…”

“She sounded so bright and businesslike that I wondered if I had hallucinated th…”

“Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy!”

“Oh,Mercer," he murmured against my temple once we'd come up for air, "we are so…”