Hearing His Part

Claire stared at the man sitting opposite her with an unreadable expression, he was saying something but she was only half listening to what he was saying. Her head was aching as a result of overthinking, with a lot of information that Melissa just dumped on her, he had called the waiter over and ordered what he wanted to eat because apparently he was starving because he had been busy with some stuff. “You aren’t angry that I replied to your text late were you, I wasn’t able to get to my phone quickly,” he informed her and she nodded in understanding. “I am sorry about Melissa’s behavior last time, she is not… well…she is usually like that,” he told her. “So what’s wrong? You are not looking good,” he told her, staring at her face, she was not her usual cheery self. “Melissa came to the gallery,” Claire said and a frown pulled up on Matthew’s face at the mention of his cousin’s name. He had known Melissa enough to understand that her visit to Claire, who Melissa was hostile to, would n