with legal.
Vanessa started crying.
Not from understanding.
From panic.
“I’m sorry,” she said, looking at Julian now. “I didn’t know.”
Julian met her eyes.
“That’s the problem,” he said quietly.
Because the people who humiliate strangers always say the same thing afterward.
They didn’t know.
Didn’t know the person mattered.
Didn’t know they had value.
Didn’t continue reading …