“Well, at least someone decided it was important that I knew.”
“What? You sound angry.”
“And I should be. Unless you’ve been messing with me all this time, there’s something important between us, and you don’t even bother to clue me in when you take a whip in hand and flog the daylights out of the woman. I could see the way you looked at her.”
“You sound jealous.”
“Jealous? No. Totally confused, yes. You expect me to see something like that and not have an emotional response, not wonder what the hell is going on?”
His face darkened at that comment, and now he looked very much like the man who’d earlier strode from the billiard room while beckoning her to follow, the same remote expression dominated his face. The same coldness ruled his behavior.
“I don’t even know you now, Robbie.” S
