Now that she was actually standing in front of him however, Sebastian could see plainly that she was not happy about the switch, and his amusement quietly drained from his face, leaving something sourer behind it.
"You don't want me to travel with you?" He asked, watching her expression confirm what he already suspected, and feeling it further dampen the mood he had woken up in. So she preferred his cousin's company than her husband's?
For reasons he wasn't entirely willing to examine yet, he had genuinely believed she might be at least a little pleased that he was coming along with her.
For a long time Zoe had begged him to go on even a one day vacation with her but Sebastian had repeatedly turned her down until she had eventually stopped asking altogether.
Had he come out here to give his sister a few days away like she had always wanted, she would have been overjoyed. But of course not his wife. Not his stubborn hellcat.
