"Don't give me no reason to," Mollie-Sue informed Ainsley, with a huff in her tone, finding it was her turn to feel a little ashamed. Real southern ladies didn't fly into tempers.

She pushed her knuckles past her nose in a tough-guy act, before giving him a smile to show she wasn't in a real rage. Yet. "I'm jus' foolin', Ainsley. Y'all got no reason to act like a little bunny with a snake."