Rafe studied him carefully. He didn't sound like he was lying. She was still irritated but the righteous part of it largely deflated. It wasn't in her to stay angry over something like this.
"Pretty damn far an act to carry. If you had an issue with what I said, ya could have just said so instead of jumping to squalor comments and then act so surprised when my 'uncouth' mouth gets going," she said. When she heard 'Raphael', it didn't click with her. "Its feminine. Like...more Upper-Plate like than 'Rafe' and its embarrassing to go around with all the time. Like Raphaelle or Raffaella or Rafia."
She threw those out casually enough, she thought, but each one she tried didn't sound like 'hers'.