HE TOOK HIS FIANCÉE TO HIS POOR HOMETOWN TO TEST HER—BUT THE PAPER SHE HANDED HIM LEFT HIM TOO ASHAMED TO MEET HER EYES

sitting around while grown men talk like every woman is waiting to rob them.”

Aaron’s face flushed red. “You think you’re better than us now?”

“No,” Diego said. “I think I was worse than I wanted to admit.”

No one had much to add after that.

Diego did not lose every friend that day.

But he did lose the approval of men whose approval had only made him less continue reading …