hed been angered by the realization of hughs betrayal ; hed spent the time waiting for the saddled horse to be brought to him and riding to le loops house gnawing on every possible encounter hugh and the huntsman may have had , embellishing every word , every casual greeting , until the affair seemed to dwarf his own relationship with hugh in its passion and intensity , until all his years with the earl had been reduced to a trivial fling .