I can sense the rage and aggression like a vast black hole sucking the air out of his space as he leaves, and I shiver, knowing what I’ve started. This will get the punishment I goaded him for so long ago. If anything brings about the worst in him, it’s this right here, and I may finally get my answer on whether someone like him can ever really change. Not that it matters anymore. The second he cheated, we were done.

I turn my attention back to the room and the stony figures who ...