He did not get angry. He did not turn his back on me. ‘Em.’ So dangerously calm. So treacherously gentle. ‘We both know you're not here to fix anything. You're here because you're trying to punish yourself again. You should know by now that I can tell the difference between those two things, even if you stubbornly insist on confusing them.’ I stared at him. ‘So is this really how you want to go about this?’

