SHAUN'S POV
The silence that followed the rest of dinner wasn't intentional by me, it just happened. Only the clinking of our cutlery made any form of noise between us.
I hadn't meant to come off like a jerk, which was surprising because I never really cared in the past. My words had been clumsy, half meant, half laced with sarcasm, a way of not really letting her see me fully. I had thought she would maybe laugh or ease into it since we have been conversing. But she hadn't.
Her expression had closed up like a vault, and that particular moment had passed into something uncomfortable.
More uncomfortable than it should have been. We had slipped back to our usual demeanour in such a fast momentum.
An awkward silence blanketed the truth of the meal. The ease between us had vanished comp
