Except that him not listening to her was what had caused all this, so it really was a big part of it. Or at least as far as he was concerned it was. Because he regretted it. How could he not? How could he not feel like a fool for what he'd done?
And now it looked like she was going to cry and that broke through all his angry and irrational resolve. He would never intentionally hurt her, despite Gisborne's accusations. "What about us?" Okay so he'd just had a healthy dose of pain medication but he really didn't know where she was going with this. Did she think he didn't care about them? Is that what she'd meant in her question about caring? "What about me?" He added, almost as an after thought. Less of a concern really.