[ota] a ghost still haunts him

[wascomplicit]

If anyone had ever paid any particular sort of attention to Davin's movements (not that most anyone did), they might have seen that on this day specifically, he was often on business, off Deck. For nearly the past eighteen years.

He hadn't been able to make the excuse this time. Not when Vivenne put her foot down, anyway, for reasons that only made sense to her.

So it is that he is instead holding down a corner of the bar at Mackinnon's, brooding. Which, while not a completely unfamiliar look for a Spade in general, it doesn't quite sit right on Davin.

At least he can leave a glass of white wine to the side, untouched, in memory of the wife he lost. While he works on getting through a few tumblers of scotch.

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[falsepretences]

"Mm, no, explosion," Jordan says as he drinks half of his and sets it aside. "Only way to put a permanent end to the evening. Everything else we'll persevere right through."

[wascomplicit]

"I know a guy," Davin says dryly. "Wouldn't be too hard."

He sounds almost serious. But they both know he isn't. Under his long-cultivated grief, after all, is a man who loves his family despite their failings.

[falsepretences]

"Probably should avoid it, though." He could finish his bourbon. He'd like to, but he suspects a clear head might be key tonight, and Jordan sighs. "It'd undermine all our attempts to be mature adults. I don't want to know what kind of conversation you'd get."

[wascomplicit]

"I don't think conversation is the right word, really."

He looks down at the glass of wine and sighs. "How fashionably late were you planning on being?"

[falsepretences]

Jordan looks at his watch. "I should head over now, I suppose," he says. It's going to be a long night, and he'd really rather spend it with takeout and the law books Emily Smythe-Jones has set him to studying.

"I just came in to brace myself for the inevitable. Coming?"

[wascomplicit]

Davin nods and stands, leaving the wineglass behind. "Might as well. Maybe we should pick up something to take as peace offering."