He scowls at her. “Frightened?”
“It's not just the things he said to me. It's the things I said to him. Things I've never told anyone. Not even you or Ross. It's like he was… in my head, breaking me down. Then he used those things against me, and he was loving it, Al.”
Aldo just gives her a condescending raise of the eyebrows, and Luce feels the urge to slap those eyebrows right off his coupon. But at the same time, she hears how vague and lame her explanation sounds.
“You had to be there,” she says again. “Even Ross is freaked out. And you're acting plenty freaky yourself, in case you hadn't noticed.”
Aldo's eyes slide away from her and he shakes his head again. “Bullshit,” he says, but you'd have to be dense not to hear the lack of conviction in his voice.
“Bullshit? Come on, Al. Ho
