“What are you talking about?”
Even as I finished speaking, I could tell that Austin was somewhat annoyed with me, and as much as I would have wanted to tell him that he had no reason to be annoyed, I knew that I would be wrong, because he did have reason. And I had no doubt in my mind that he would be very willing to voice that reason as soon as he would be given the chance to.
“Oh, for goodness sake, Laela, have you not been paying attention to what has been going on? That is why you weren’t able to answer when they spoke to you. I should have known that that was why. I should have known.”
Despite the fact that the nature of his words weren’t very kind, one thing that I did know, was that he wasn’t upset. The tone of his voice was normal, evenly pitched. It was like he was having an
