Fics like You'll Make a Great Ex Someday

They had all seen it. Humiliation crawled hot beneath his skin. And because humiliation had always been intolerable, because shame had always felt like a hot iron down his throat, Robby’s mind did what it had trained itself to do since childhood. It turned the shame into anger. He latched onto it greedily. Dennis had no right to do that in front of everyone. No right to challenge him on the floor. No right to humiliate him in his own department. If Dennis had a problem with the way he ran things, he should have waited. Should have handled it privately. Should have pulled him aside instead of dressing him down like some reckless intern. Robby clung to that narrative desperately. He had to. Because if he admitted, even for one second, that Dennis had been right… Then he would have to face what he had become in that moment. And he wasn’t ready for that. Or, Established Hucklerobby argue very publicly in the ED. Robby, of course, spirals about it after.

Fics like You'll Make a Great Ex Someday

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