The silence that followed was one of the more satisfying four seconds of my adult life, and I want to record that I am not proud of enjoying it, and that I enjoyed it enormously.

“You’re unbelievable,” he said finally.

“You genuinely don’t feel anything, do you.

That’s what it was the whole time.

Everybody said it and I defended you.”

“Was there something else, Christopher?”

He hung up.

I put the phone face down on the desk.