[Silence reigns for a moment because Hermann has no idea where to start with any of that. They're all half-formed thoughts until the last, and even then, it fails to make sense within its own context. Fortunately he's dealt with Newton for far too many years and he's capable of stringing them together in what he guesses was the original stream of thought]

Wait a moment. So what you're attempting to say is that Joaquin had a romantic interest in me, and that one of you decided it was an excellent idea to use that in order to prove a point that I wouldn't leave you for someone else?

[It's some high school level of inverted logic he's sure, and he is absolutely offended by the implications]

Well?