His mind had gone somewhere else. It wasn't necessarily bad, but something had definitely happened in the space between Robin punishing him and finally checking on him to see if he knew what had been done wrong. Through her silence, he had been letting her previous scoldings sink in and wash over and run through him like new blood. When he spoke, it was with the pleading undertones of a sub somewhere from his space.

"I... I thought you were using me," he said, shame clearly evident. It must have hurt her so incredibly bad if she had punished him so harshly. "Playing around with me... but you're not. You're not."