Nick's janus speak and his narcissist lack of empathy could mean he sat there ack ack acking over his former friend while his son fake laughed because he's learned that's the best way to not activate the ragetwig. Kids get pretty good at figuring out how to appease narc parents to not set them off.
When a narcissist is done with someone, or if they think someone is about to leave them (and deny them their narcissistic supply) they'll go through a period of devaluing and then discarding. We got to see the most overt parts of it, "ruined body", treating her like a sex object, etc. just imagine what went on in private.
I was looking at the stream where Kayla gave him the now verboten whiskey picture. He really does a bad job hiding how disappointed he was with it. I think he's been pretty sick of Lady Rackets for a long time.
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