“You conveyed no such impression.” I managed to get the words out, my chest frozen, my gut on fire, brain numb. “That is exactly what I meant. Gwynn and Matilda were lovers. Arawn and Matilda were only friends. That’s how things have changed. I’m with Ricky. You and I are friends.”
She doesn't get to play the victim here. Keeping things from him was shitty, and she has done it a few times. They're either in this together or she needs to stop pretending like she's his working partner. I mean, FFS, everything with the original trio went so wrong because they kept secrets.