It wasn't that he thought she was a liar, it's just that the words were nearly impossible to believe. His whole life was spent being second chair to Oliver. When she touched his arm he tensed and flinched away. "Yeah, I can tell you're really broken up about it." As soon as he said it, he knew it wasn't fair. He had no claim to her and it wasn't hard to see that something pent and powerful had been brewing between Laurel and Oliver since he came back from that island.