Extraits

“Why can’t you forgive me? You let everything else go with everyone else. Why do I have different rules? And stop looking at me like that.”

I all but stomp my goddamn foot. Thank God I don’t, or I’d have to immediately transfer, but he’s making me crazy and fucking petulant. The muscles in his jaw ripple as he looks sideways down the hall. He’s squinting his eyes as if he can’t stand to look at me, and all my anger instantly sours, turning into fear.

“Because you don’t mean what they mean to me.”