Selina suddenly erupted, wilder and more reckless than ever before.
It was as if she had turned all her pent-up shame, anger, and resignation into a roaring fire. Open defiance blazed in her dark green eyes.
"If he wants to listen, let him hear everything!"
"And you'd better not embarrass me!"
Yongye leaned back against the sofa cushions, his hands behind his head. The easy smile on his lips turned to genuine surprise and delight.
"Don't get ahead of yourself. You're the one who'll end up embarrassed!"
A muffled groan escaped Selina. Half her body went limp, but she stubbornly held her waist straight, like a wildcat baring its teeth even at the bitter end.
Thousands of miles away, deep in the sewers beneath Gotham.
Batman crouched inside an abandoned main pipe, his back against the damp wall. On the tactical projection floating before him, the Listening Device hidden in the mouth of the gramophone horn was still running.
They had discovered his wiretap!
And those two were deliberately taunting him!
Batman clenched his fists at his sides, his knuckles clicking softly. His chest heaved, making his dark gray armor tremble with each breath. His cape trailed through the standing water behind him, more than half of it soaked.
He slammed a fist into the concrete pipe wall beside him.
The dull impact echoed through the pipe. Fine cement dust shook loose and pattered into the water, sending up a ring of murky splashes.
"Fuck!"
He forced the curse through gritted teeth, the word thick with fury and humiliation burning up from deep in his chest.
But Selina's voice kept coming through his earpiece. Her broken, muffled moans struck him again and again like a barrage of lightning lashes.
Batman closed his eyes and pressed the back of his head