She frowned back at him. "Because you're going, of course." The scotch was starting to make her insides feel warm. "I want to be with you."
John coming back so soon made her feel a little apprehensive about this thing with Malcolm. She didn't think John would like it, so it made her feel a bit rebellious and irritable. She hated feeling controlled like that. And now Malcolm was so cagey about all this- but she made herself shrug and relax, and hold her glass out for a top-up. "Am I not allowed to know a little more about you?"