"Of course I care," he shot back immediately, frustrated that she kept saying that when it was so patently obvious that he did. He felt like she was just trying to provoke him at this point, by saying it, because of course she couldn't think that was actually true. She was just trying to make him feel bad — as if they both didn't feel bad enough already.

"You think I wanted this?" he asked, gesturing between the two of them to encompass all of the shit they'd been sitting in the past three hours. "You think if I'd known what was going to happen on Thursday, I would've —"

Except Jo didn't know about Thursday, and even in the midst of an argument he wasn't going to let that slip. He huffed angrily and changed track. "If I'd known it was a lie then, I wouldn't have promised it," he insisted. "I do care."