Teach me to desire
They see him as a rival.
I begin to teach, but the words feel like a performance, an empty script. I am a man of total control but all I can think about is a boy with a bruised mouth and a terrified look on his face. My lecture is on business ethics, the irony of it not lost on me. I talk about honesty and integrity, about building a foundation of trust. All the while, my gaze keeps drifting to the back of the room, to Killian, who is trying so hard to be invisible, to disappear into the shadows.
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