“Billie!” Gavin strained, moving toward me.
My throat closed up. I wanted to crumple up and cry, but fresh, hot anger burning inside me didn’t allow me to succumb to my vulnerabilities. I couldn’t just fall apart like I used to. When Gavin reached out for my arm, I slapped his hand away and bristled. “No! Gavin, what you did isn’t okay.” I heard Muriel enter the hallway behind me and saw Aislin’s sympathetic expression, and felt claustrophobic standing between everyone in that tiny space of Gavin’s apartment. “I need some time alone.”
Stunned that I had rebuked him, Gavin just stared, processing what I knew to be all his unseen, racing thoughts. “Billie, I’m sorry.”
But he had accused me of being a plant from David, he had taken his anger out on me earlier, and now that same anger ne
