Time to Wake Up
"Stop pretending, Harold. I saw all those photos on your laptop and the tattoo above your heart.
"Let this go, Harold," I said. "Don't you feel guilty doing this to Elise?"
His lips wobbled, but no sound came out. When he saw the disgust in my eyes, he finally realized that arguing for his own sake would only make things worse, and all blood drained from his face.
With trembling hands, he fished out a wrinkled piece of paper from his pocket. On it, someone had written with a childish scrawl: "Reconciliation Ticket."