"Ahem… At the time, I also felt she was… a little pitiful."
Asher Keating was also at a loss for words. Back then, Morgan Sterling and the others had been extremely careful. Madeline Sterling told him they had really slept together, that they had done it even though he was unconscious.
He was dejected for a while after that, but the more he thought about it, the more something felt wrong. It was just that he didn't have many people he could rely on back then, so the investigation took a long time.
When he finally found out the truth, Asher Keating was thoroughly disgusted. But given the circumstances at the time, even though he was furious about it...
...when he thought about how Madeline Sterling was, in the end, a victim of sorts, he couldn't help but feel she was a bit pitiful.
After all, no matter what people on the outside said, for him, it was just a matter of having slept with a woman. But for Madeline Sterling...
