I waited for Xavier to say more, but who knew that he wasn't going to continue after half a sentence.

"You're not going to go on, are you?" I looked at him grumblingly.

"Say what?" He lifted his eyelashes and looked at me with a face full of justification, as if everything had nothing to do with me.

How can it be none of my business? Does he think I can still stay out of it now?

"What do you mean by 'used to be, not now', say it more clearly."

He lowered his ...