[ He stops, swallows, cuts himself off before he tells a lie. ]
I'm not mad you were with him. I am mad that I didn't find out until I was elbow-deep scrubbing your blood out of the floorboards, like you haven't insulted me enough.
[ Tim has no right to be angry with Hawk for messing around. He's seen other people too, is currently seeing other people. The difference is that Hawk knows what he's up to. It's no business of Embry's, but if he's gonna insist that he's an irredeemable asshole, he may as well hate himself for the right reasons. ]
That's an excuse. It was cowardly, is what it was.
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[ He stops, swallows, cuts himself off before he tells a lie. ]
I'm not mad you were with him. I am mad that I didn't find out until I was elbow-deep scrubbing your blood out of the floorboards, like you haven't insulted me enough.
[ Tim has no right to be angry with Hawk for messing around. He's seen other people too, is currently seeing other people. The difference is that Hawk knows what he's up to. It's no business of Embry's, but if he's gonna insist that he's an irredeemable asshole, he may as well hate himself for the right reasons. ]
That's an excuse. It was cowardly, is what it was.