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I was completely taken aback by his apology. There was no way for me to know whether it was a genuine apology or a deliberate attempt to make me feel even more humiliated.

I turned to him and asked,

"For what?"

When he was about to say something, he briefly parted his lips, but then, as if something were preventing him from doing so, he pursed them together tightly.

My eyes scrutinized him.