"Vampires are pretty mellow, most of them," Anderson replied. "He never took offense that we clearly were never meant to be together for the long haul. I can't wait to meet his wife."
"So how often are we going to run into exes who want you dead?"
Anderson shoved him into a cluster of smelly bushes. "Shut up, Wriggly. I don't care if you're asking from morbid curiosity or that mine-all-mine tendency you krakens have, it's none of your business. I'm your work partner, not your life-partner, so no getting clingy."
"I don't get clingy."
Shooting him a look that said I am thoroughly unimpressed by you, Anderson replied, "So you'd be perfectly okay if, say, that fancy tie bar went missing? How about if I rearranged all the contents of your desk"