The reckless girl was a fiction he had forced her to wear.

The truth was that she had been the only honorable person in the entire arrangement, and before I was finished, the world was going to know it.

What matters is the shape of it, the oldest and ugliest shape there is: a man with all the power, and a girl with none, and a man who used the one to take advantage of the other, and then discarded her the moment she became inconvenient.

Because that is exactly what happened next.