"You shut me out. And I'm not using that as an excuse to justify my behavior. I'm just saying, there you were, going through one of the worst things ever and I went from being the guy you shared everything with to getting nothing from you. No matter how I tried to engage."
"Oh, forgive me for not being articulate and considerate of your needs when my life was crashing down around me."
His face suffused with pity. "You never used to be this sarcastic."
"And you used to be smart enough to differentiate between sarcasm and truth. Guess we've both changed." I hastily wiped my fingers off and grabbed my purse.
Cole caught my arm before I could get up. "You're just going to run away? Can't we discuss this like adults?"
My body tensed with the urge to rip his hand off me and storm off except Leo's accusations about me cutting and running trumpeted in my head. I slapped my purse back on the table. "Okay. Let's discuss the fact that you were supposed to know that I needed you."