The ride back from Stella's house was somber, both Tom and I lost in our own ruminations about the emotional saga we had just born witness to. I stared unseeing out the window as the city rolled by, my mind turning over Stella's recounting again and again.
Part of me couldn't quite believe the sheer depth of betrayal she had enacted against her supposed best friend all those years ago. To not only pursue the object of Zoe's affection behind her back but to then so brazenly reveal their affair in such a humiliating fashion... it boggled the mind.
And yet, despite my disgust at Stella's actions, I couldn't quite muster the same unbridled outrage I had brought with me into her house. Because in her haggard features and hollow, shame-filled gaze, I had seen the all-too-human costs of such ca
