She crouches down and forces him to look her in the eye as she says: “Now you’ll be scared of the dark, too, Kevin. For the rest of your life.” In ten years’ time the parking lot will be full of other people. Kevin’s wife will be pregnant. Maya will be standing a few yards away, with every possibility in the world of ending his life. She could walk right over and say what he is, humiliate and annihilate him in front of the person he loves most. She will have all the power in that moment, but she will let him go. She will not forgive him, she will not pardon him, but she will spare him. And he
...more
