“No, you could have explained—past tense—but you didn’t. Now you can’t, because I’m not interested in hearing your excuses.” Everything was crashing down around him. He was losing her, all of her—Mercy and her letters. “You have to believe me,” he begged her. She cut him off with an incredulous, bitter laugh. “I’m sorry, what? I have to believe you? Why? So you can find some other way to weasel into my pants?” “I would never—” “You would never what? Lie to me?”
I'm not loving Mercy here. in all honesty she's lacking in grace. For a woman who "loves" him, she's also not willing to try for him. The fact she's overlooking here is they've had 4 years of being enemies. 4 yeeeears. They've only 'been together' for 3 months at this time. Hart isn't the most forthcoming with his thoughts and feelings, and Mercy hasn't given him a single inch in 4 years. If she'd bother to pause and think it through, I think she could have forgiven him here. Instead she's letting her short fuse win and ruin things, and it makes me disappointed in her character. As a side note, I also don't get the whole 'beint upset that he's her secret pen pal'. I get the part where he lied about not being able to write, but being angry that he kept his identity as her pen pal secret just seems over kill to say, 'leave and never come back'. Make him grovel a bit, make him sorry, but it's not such a big thing to cut him out of your life.
