[Miranda_]

"I'd get the last laugh; you'd get put to sleep and written off as a bad loss. I've seen it happen. Besides, I think you'll find that Ella tied you out of range of me... I've attacked new pets before, and it's a little hard to sell pets when they're missing an ear. The last one I attacked made a nasty remark about me being a rich woman's toy." He looked down at the floor. "So I ripped the side of his head off."