“Forget what you heard me say before. I was an idiot. You’re the furthest thing from a joke, Rose Wolff, and you’ll never catch me saying it again.” I opened my mouth and then closed it, pressing my lips together. This man kept surprising me. “I’m sorry, too,” I finally said. “I haven’t made it easy for you, attacking you every time you tried to talk to me. Defensiveness is second nature to me at this point.”
