Bruce sometimes wonders how things turned out this way. You and Khoa had trained—grown alongside him. The three of were less than lovers, more than friends, but he’d cares for you two still. Khoa cares, too. He just shows it differently.

“I don’t think a man like that can be helped,” Khoa says.

“We’re not killing him,” Bruce replies. They argue about how to handle criminals all the time.