A stab of cold shock, an electric charge to the brain: Robin couldn’t quite believe what she’d just heard. The passing seconds seemed to slow. She waited for Strike to say ‘which was her spite, obviously,’ or, ‘because she never understood that a man and a woman could just be friends’, or to make a joke. Yet he said nothing to defuse the grenade he’d just thrown, but simply looked at her.
He still didn't quite come out and say it though, did he? Will Robin find a way to continue her denial or will Strike actually come out and say that he loves her, properly?? We know he does but from Robin's point of view, she could probably still talk herself into believing she'd misunderstood him
