Chapter 53
Their first lesson in becoming decent human beings didn’t go exactly as Leo and Evan had envisioned. Instead of a neat checklist of "dos and don'ts," Serenity spent the vast majority of the time meticulously dismantling their egos. She spent more time pointing out their flaws than teaching them how to counteract them, but there was a distinct method to her madness.
She emphasized that one can’t begin to fix toxic traits if they haven’t first developed the stomach to look at them directly. You can't navigate out of a hole if you refuse to admit you're at the bottom.
Consequently, when she spent the better part of two hours identifying every narcissistic, dismissive, and entitled character trait they possessed—Evan, predictably, received the lion's share of the critique—it left
