Hundred and Five

VALERIA

"You knew!" I yelled at him. "All this time."

Dimitri sighed. His puzzled expression disappeared. It was replaced with a sort of weariness and... sadness. I felt a pang of pity for him. Why? I didn't want to feel that way. Besides, what had he to be sad about anyway? I held on to my anger like a shield to keep my other emotions at bay.

To my annoyance, most of my anger immediately dissipated when he said, "You're right. I'm sorry."

"You're-"

I flinched when he walked past me, thinking he wanted to touch me, but he only went to close the door.

"We wouldn't want anyone overhearing us now, would we?"

"Is that all you have to say for yourself?" I said.

"No. There are a lot of things I've been dying to say to you. The first is that I'm sorry, really sorry. But the truth is you were the one who put me in this position. I all but told you that I knew what was going on with you. Still you kept your discovery from me. You left me no choice but to keep pretending just the way you were