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He put up with it for a week – and then he began to beg.
“Please, darling… I miss you so much… it would bring us closer together…”
After a few days of that not working, he tried to badger me.
“We’ve never gone this long without making love!”
Then guilt me.
“Are you really going to let this come between us?”
And then he turned nasty.
“What, your traitor ex-boyfriend gets out of prison, and now all you can do is think about fucking him?” he raged one night when he had a couple of drinks in him.
I had ignored most of Alistair’s passive-aggressive bullshit and incessant whining – But the last comment broke the camel’s back.
“You need to shut your fucking mouth and stay away from me,” I snarled. “In fact, get out of my house – NOW.”
“But I’ve been drinking,” he whined. “I can’t drive – I’m the Director of Operations! If I got arrested – ”
“So call a fucking Uber!”
When he wouldn’t go voluntarily, I used a little pain compliance. I twisted his arm behind him, shoved him out the front door, threw his phone out after him, and told him to fuck off.
In the moment, it was enormously satisfying. And the quiet afterwards was heavenly.
In the long term, though, it proved disastrous.
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Iwent to work the next morning and checked in with Sean, my research point man. “Do we have any more intel on the Bangladesh mission? I’m supposed to fly out next Monday and – ”
I could tell by Sean’s look that something was wrong.
“What?” I asked.
“…you got pulled off of Bangladesh,” he said hesitantly.
Now it was my turn to frown. “Is the mission delayed?”
“…not exactly…”
“Then what the fuck’s going on?”
“…it got assigned to Burnham.”
Lionel Burnham was an idiot who made a complete cock-up of everything he touched. But he was a well-connected idiot – plus he had a penis, so all his failures tended to get chalked up to ‘bad luck’ or ‘unforeseeable circumstances.’
“What did they put me on, then?” I asked.
“…nothing.”
I stared at him. “Nothing?! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me – ”
And then I knew exactly why I’d been pulled off of Bangladesh.
Rage began pumping through my veins.
