"Might have been an idea," he agrees. "Not like I would have told him if you asked me not to." And then, because he can't help himself. "He even able to read?"

Even as he asks it, Bobo holds up his hand. "Don't have to answer that. I'll let it go, and assume not," he teases, just so that Vasquez knows it's all okay.

But then everything else he is about to say dies. He just stares at Vasquez for the longest moment before he bursts out laughing.

"Oh. God. You tried to bang the heir," he manages, shaking his head and then wagging a finger at Vasquez. "You have got to be the only man I've ever known that couldn't get in those pants."