“How have you been managing? Since you’ve gotten back from your parents? In the same manner that you always do, or have there been some changes?”
I clenched my jaw, feeling like that question was a lot more personal than it needed to be, and feeling like I had absolutely no obligation to answer it. I had done him a favour by actually allowing him to come inside. If he thought that it meant more than that, that it suddenly allowed him to simply do and say as he pleased, then he was going to be in for a big surprise.
This was still my house, and he was the guest here. He was supposed to be cautious of what he was saying. And yet, our roles were currently reversed, completely thrown into the opposite ends of the playing field.
“I’ve been managing.”
My teeth grated agai
