"I should have known better," he insists quietly. "It's humiliating."

Even if his subconscious had helpfully stepped in to flesh out the details, had given her a door and an inmate backstory... What does it say about him, or about him and Victoria, that he'd spent three full days happily in love with a figment of his imagination and hadn't questioned it once? Of course he's ready to be done; if it was that easy to fake, it was never as real as he thought it was from the start.