Chapter 10 Resilient Parasites

After Rosalind and Linden broke up, he sent me an apology text. "Rory, I was blinded by her sweet talk. You'll forgive me, right?" Years of passionate love crumbled pretty easily when faced with real consequences. Dad saw the text and frowned at me. "Are you just going to let them off the hook like this?" "Of course not, Dad. Parasites are rather resilient." … Still, I underestimated how thick-skinned this trashy couple could be. Without his hands, Linden couldn't be an artist anymore, but he still needed to find work to survive. After hitting wall after wall in the job market, he showed up at my office begging for a job. He dropped to his knees, eyes bloodshot, looking like he'd been crying for three straight days. He pleaded with me, "Rory, please forgive me. I was wrong, I was so wrong!" I asked him, "What exactly were you wrong about?" He sobbed as he answered, "The whole thing with Rosalind was just a huge misunderstanding. It was all her! She seduced me! She was jealous