That I never really terminated you at all.

And we forget this ever happened.”

I looked at him for a long moment.

And I want to be honest that I did not feel, in that moment, the triumph you might expect.

I did not feel like gloating.

What I felt, looking at Justin Abernathy sweating in his beautiful suit, offering me triple wages to help him undo his own greed, was something closer to pity.