All This I Will Give to You

by Dolores Redondo

The evidence of betrayal and a scarcely hidden derision in the voices of Nogueira and Santiago had poured salt on his wounds. Acid shame had burned its way through his guts in a cruel, unrelenting advance of unbearable humiliation that annihilated his very essence. He’d been determined to ignore it, to flee from this corrosive situation, and to walk away with his head held high.