Juliet let out a little breath through her nose. All Ben was managing to do was to piss her off again. Yes, she had been prepared to forgive him, but not until she was satisfied that he was truly sorry. This defensive act wasn't going to get him very far with such a hardheaded woman though.
"You want to use you being busy and stressed as an excuse for walking out on your wife?" she said, aghast. "Ben, this isn't the man that I married. What happened to him? What happened to the man who spoke of me kindly and would never do anything to hurt me? I do want to help you, but only if..." she hesitated. Only if what? "Only if you really want the help and right now I'm not so sure you do."