I raise a brow. “Sure didn’t seem that way at the engagement party.”
He shifts his weight and looks down at his feet for a second before returning his gaze to my own. “You thought you had me all figured out. I didn’t want to disappoint you.” There’s an edge to his voice and it’s clear to me that I struck a nerve that night. Interesting.
“In my defence, I thought I did. When I realized who you were… and then the fact that I’d gone home with you a few weeks before…” I trail off and I’m not able to meet his eyes when I say that last part.
“You thought nothing had changed.”
I shrug.
“The night you came back to my place… that was different.”
“How?”
He pauses and then shakes his head. “Doesn’t matter. Just was.”
Another interesting little tidbit I file away and plan to examine later. “Al
