Leslie said, "So I hope you never let yourself get carried away with these kinds of assumptions again."

Ryder's face turned red with embarrassment. Feeling humiliated, he snapped, "Leslie, are you saying I'm being delusional? Then tell me what I have to become, what I would have to do, to be good enough for you? What level would be enough to not be a ‘delusion' in your eyes?"

Leslie gave him a long, slow look, and her eyes were filled with scorn. It was not just rejection, but the way she lo