A Step Back
He sat across from me, hands cuffed, and his face was deathly pale.
I did not lash out like he thought I would. There was no fury, no accusation, not even hatred.
I just watched him quietly, the way one would look at someone he had never met.
My gaze drifted to the brand-new designer watch on his wrist.
It was a birthday gift I worked three months to afford.
I spoke slowly. My first sentence struck straight at his weakest point.
“Did you pay off that two-hundred-thousand-dollar loan?”
Dylan flinched. The blood vanished from his face in a split second, and his eyes skittered away in panic.