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What a stupid response. She didn't even have to listen to it to know that whatever came out of Rhys's mouth was going to be stupid, of course, because most things were. He never said anything in arguments which was not idiotic, which is why she always won, except for those few times when he caught her on an off day, which could hardly be counted against her when---

Wait, what?

Wait.

What?

She had almost missed it, she had been so ready with her next jab. She had almost missed what he had said, mouth open already with a poison dart poised on the tip of her tongue, just waiting to strike back, but--but he...

Juliet was nearly certain she had just heard Rhys tell her that she was right and he was wrong, which was... accurate, yes.. which she should have been happy to hear, yes, but... What was going on? Never before in any fight that she had engaged in with Rhys Nott over the past many years had he ever, ever admitted defeat. No, they just didn't do that. When they didn't win a fight, they stormed off and didn't speak to each other, not stood there and just owned up to it. In fact, she was sure that the reason he had run off and stayed away from her in the first place was at least partially because of that aspect of their relationship... which admittedly was fairly frustrating, and which she had admitted to herself during the long months was a very foolish reason to allow yourself to lose contact with your technical husband, but to just actually come out and say it was---

Merlin, she felt dizzy.

There had been very few moments in Juliet's life that broke through her carefully maintained walls of sarcasm and snarkiness, and almost all of them thusfar had for some reason had to deal somehow with the man in front of her. Somehow he was the only one who could say or do something that left her completely stunned and lacking a cool comeback, and he had just done it again, right when she had least been expecting it.

Could you honestly hate someone for basically apologizing? Because Juliet was certain that she had just found a way.

Frozen in place, staring at him intently, her fingers dug into her arms nervously, her whole aura confused and uncertain in that moment. "I--" she struggled, "I---ah, I... see, then." Oh, this was so very uncomfortable. "Then I suppose you... would not mind me seeing them?"

That was right, deflect back to the children. Because this situation had already gone far too much into the two adults in too short a time.