"How long has this thing been going on?" he repeated, his voice a rising gale.
"Are you your brother's keeper?"
"From your kind, yes."
"There has been nothing between us."
"That's a lie."
Through the scorch of her humiliation it was a second before she could command her lips.
"I swear to God."
"Bah!" he almost spat out, "after what I walked in on!"
"Yes," she said, biting off the words with a clip, "after what you walked in on."
He leaned forward with a thrust of face that was unpleasantly close.