“Well then, if there’s really as much to tell me as you claim there is, why do you keep stalling for time?”
“Oh, I wouldn’t really know, Blair. Maybe it’s because you’re not exactly the easiest person to talk to—about anything.”
The tone of his voice changed drastically, the timbre of it dropping in a way that made me wonder if it had truly been him who had spoken. I could practically feel the irritation rolling off of him, wave upon wave of it. It rivalled my own. But his voice hadn’t been the only indication of his change in emotion, for his eyes had darkened—almost as if the light had disappeared from the room.
It took a moment for me to come to a decision on what to say back to him, not really wanting to surrender the hostile front that I had been p
