It was very annoying, speaking to someone who knew Skulduggery so well. Seeing as it was Anton, Skulduggery hadn't been trying very hard to hide anything to begin with; but even so. Annoying.

"Yunxu," he admitted. "Though to be fair, I'm not the one stealing her from him. To be even fairer, the person who is stealing her from him isn't exactly stealing. But, seeing as Yunxu doesn't seem to have any standard sense of honour, we can probably count on some retaliation."