Robin hadn’t been expecting Sawyer to talk to him like that. He had expected disparagingly commenting on how Sawyer compared to his own father and ancestors would somehow give him the upper hand.
Now he was faced with an ultimatum, and the growing realisation that despite a large number of ideological differences between father and son, Robin wouldn’t want to piss off either of the two Sawyer men.
“Don’t keep me waiting, Eddowes.”
“Was that a threat?”
Sawyer was still sat on the bed, completely unphased by how upset Robin was.
“I do a lot of things very differently to my father. One thing I did learn from him is that threats are worthless. I never threaten. If I wanted you dead, you’d be dead already.”
Something in what Sawyer said seemed to have an effect on Robin, but Elizabeth w
