Ethan Cross had always believed that the most dangerous people in the world were emotional ones, so he trained himself to be calm, logical, detached, the kind of man who could explain even cruelty as a rational decision, the kind who could walk away from wreckage and call it closure, and for years this belief had served him well, because when you convince yourself that feelings are weaknesses, you stop seeing the damage you cause as real.
He never said he was heartless; he said he was honest.
He never said he was abandoning his wife; he said he was “choosing growth.”
He never said he was betraying his family; he said he was “finally living authentically.”
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