"Yeah. It is." Shit. Shit. Corbie was not going to let that stab her, though she'd heard that waver in her own words. She knew, of course, that Felix wasn't and would never be interested in her in that way. Some people might have been too stupid to realize that she was not, in fact, Felix's mistress, but...

She swallowed and tried to shove all those feelings back down and in.

More steadily she added, "Mildmay's straight."