"I am." It stings that he has to ask, and for a moment she doesn't add anything else. He had Carolina now, why would he need her? With how poorly things were going right now, she takes his question as a subtle hint to back off.

But then he sighs, and she's not sure what to say at all. She interprets his words as mixed signals and for the moment not knowing what he wants or what she should do. "Evntually, yes." She sounds even less sure, now. Dammit, castle, things had been fine before you fucked it all up. She didn't know how to handle this sort of shit.