You Had Five Minutes
I let out a soft, single laugh.
It wasn’t loud, but it cut through his speech like a blade.
“You didn’t distance yourself, Conrad,” I said, leaning forward, resting my hands on the polished wood.
“When I stood bleeding and humiliated in that restroom, you didn’t ask if I was all right.
You looked at the woman who attacked me and asked her what she was thinking.
And her answer, recorded on your own security feed, was: ‘I did it for us.'” Conrad’s face drained of color.