He snorts lightly and says,"She wields weighty implications, banderole flown high, of an absence. PROMISE YOU GIRL, IT AIN'T A MOTHERFUCKING ABSENCE OF HIS. Have never met you in my life, AND YET YOU EXPECT A HAILING AND HEELING ONLY TO WHATEVER MOTHERFUCKING WORDS YOU SWEAR TO? Can teach-preach what a little sister knows not but there will be no curtailing of his own."

He smirks crookedly, in a way that could just as easily be interpreted as a challenge to her.