"Are you assuming that I'm illiterate or that I don't know how to scroll up? Because, generally, it seems like you're coming on strong and not getting much back. Can't say I'm surprised." He snorted, shaking his head. "I don't think your boyfriend is that into you either. So many one word responses and always with proper punctuation. There's a lot to be read into there."

Such as the assumption that he had a boyfriend. But, hey, it was the person he'd called and it was the person that he texted the most. And so much of it was deeply and disturbingly sexual.

Barty lowered the phone and looked up, considering. "Darling, if you spell out asphyxiation for me correctly right now, I won't make you do it to yourself."