Helena knew it would be better to give in, but it simply wasn't in her nature to do so. However, eventually, she did blink and look away. She only looked back at Terry resentfully.
"Fine, you won't tell me." she finally said.
"All I want is for you to stay out."he said.
"I was only curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"Not always, and when it doesn't, 'satisfaction brought it back'."
It was impossible to beat her with quotes about cats. She must have them all memorized.
"But curiosity killing is a possibility, after all." she admitted. "And even so, it may just be worth it. I know you hide something. And even if this does kill, I must find out what it is."
"What for? Like I said, it's none of your business." he repeated. "Do I have to keep repeating until you get it?"
"I didn't mean to cause trouble." she said. "But I must find out whatever it is. I think it may be important. If you were seeing someone else, after all, I wouldn't stand for it."
"There's nothing for you to find out."he finally said.
Helena looked lost in thought for a while.
"I'm going to believe you didn't mean to cause trouble, but I just don't want you to be telling Dana things like that." Terry said.
Sometimes it was hard enough to keep his relationship with Dana, without Helena adding her dramatic fantasies in as well.
Helena looked up, with a look of interest.
"Then you do see someone else?" she asked.
"No! Will you just drop it? It's got nothing to do with you."
"Um..."she began. "I...may...not...but I may?"
"No, not may, you will."
"I don't take orders, Terry! Not from you! Only from one person."
When Helena said she only took orders from one person, he knew she meant Lady Selina.
"And if the Lady told you to drop it, you'll drop it?"
"In that case, would I really have that much of a choice?" she asked.
Then he'd have to get the Lady to get her to forget about it. Or there could just be some other way to get Helena's attention away from this.
"Let's not argue." Helena said when she spoke again. "When I argue with someone, I usually don't speak them again. And I don't want that."
"You never speak to them again?"
"No."
"Never?"
"Never."she confirmed.
"Why not?"
"Because usually they're wrong."
"And if they're right?"
"That's not very likely, as hardly anyone argues with me, anyway."
Terry certainly believed that. Helena would never admit she was wrong.
"But it usually makes little difference if we got along well before or not. So I'd rather you and I not argue."
"Then let's not, and you don't look for any reason to."
"You find reasons, I don't!"
"Let's talk about something else, then."
"Then…" Helena searched in her mind for a different topic. "one of my ex step brothers soon." she said.
"Ex step brothers?"
"Yes."