(What?! What did I do?)
Rick watches in terror.
"Dammit..." he said. A tear formed at the corner of his eye.
"Not again... not again..."
He turned to Lucinda, poison in his gaze.
"You stupid, stuck-up, lazy, crap-eating b*tch," he seethed. "You always had this planned, didn't you? Drive Cassandra mad by forcing her to kill her best friend, and then drive Zack mad with bloodlust. You probably even hoped it would crush me too. But it's not."
He leaned forward as far as he could.
"YOU WILL NEVER BREAK ME."
(Look, whatever I did, I'm sorry for it.)