 first time since he&#8217;d met Charlotte Thompson, his temper threatened to overflow. &#8220;How does one, in the tiniest way, lead someone to believe that you are sleeping with someone else?&#8221;</p>
<p class="excerpttext">&#8220;She assumed and I didn&#8217;t exactly deny it. It wouldn&#8217;t have done me any good to deny it. She never would have believed me.&#8221;</p>
<p class="excerpttext">&#8220;Why is that?&#8221;</p>
<p class="excerpttext">She shot him a droll look. &#8220;Have you looked at yo