"Wait--what?"

He has a few more (important) pieces, but that doesn't mean he has the actual context of where the slander is coming from.

"Of course you are!" Sweeney squirms to keep her against him.

"I wouldn't--I haven't!"

But apparently someone was pouring poison in her ear.

"Gilia--I haven't laid with anyone--" He winces, trying to keep himself tight even when there's fire in his side due to a couple of cracked ribs.

"Who told you such lies?"