Speechless and defeated
Chris stood there, speechless and defeated. The weight of Dereck’s fury and the evidence on the phone left him with nothing to say.
His shoulders slumped, and he stared at the floor, avoiding everyone’s eyes. The silence in the room was deafening, each second stretching into an eternity.
I could see the last vestiges of Chris’s bravado crumble, leaving only a broken man behind.