“I’m also glad you now know why I turned you down.” Daniel looked sharply at Clark. “This is unusual, you know? Most men, when they’re rejected, wouldn’t hunt that person down to offer them a sweet business deal. Why are you giving me this, when all I gave you was a cold shoulder?”
Oh, it confuses the fuck out of me, too, believe me.
Pushing aside panic and the reflexive anger that came with that emotion, Clark tried to find the words that would put Daniel at ease so Clark wouldn’t feel like an utter failure later. Just mostly a failure, because his emotional bullshit had nearly managed to ruin this entire damned conversation.