Forgive me, but that laughs sounds like it suits you better. Comes easier to the throat.

[She gave him a vicious little smirk. Look, she might not have any plots or plans, but she wasn't a nice person deep down. She didn't make any pretenses there.]

Any time you get them together, humans are naturally greedy, rappacious things. Tokugawa. Meiji. Sakanoue. Names change. Shit still smells like shit. It just comes with the territory.

how's this? You fake a politician's smile well.