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And hit him in the face.
A clenched fist right to the jaw.
I didn’t pull my punch.
He crumpled to the floor like a sack of potatoes.
Now all the other men screamed in outrage.
One dropped to his knees to help Alistair on the floor.
Alistair petulantly pushed him away as he stared up at me.
“You – you – ” he gasped, looking up at me like he couldn’t comprehend what had just happened.
“I quit,” I hissed.
Then I pulled off my engagement ring and threw it on the floor.
“I quit EVERYTHING!” I shouted.
Then I turned and stormed out of the room –
And MI6 –
Forever.
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Ordinarily, there would have been an entire process to leave MI6.
Exit interviews, paperwork, lots of legal agreements to sign.
But when you were sleeping with your boss – and you punch him out in front of two Members of Parliament – MI6 apparently expedites the process.
Thirty minutes after I got home, a representative from the agency came knocking on my door.
I knew him. Charlie Buckminster. Former field agent, now in Joint Field Command – the same job Alistair had wanted to ‘promote’ me to.
Not a bad guy, all things considered. He’d simply lost his edge after being shot one too many times and had started fearing dying more than craving the adrenaline rush of missions.
“Is it true?” he asked when I opened the door.
“It is.”
“Bloody hell,” he muttered. “Fuck Alistair.”
“Not anymore,” I said drily.
He laughed, then grew somber. “They’ll never be able to replace you, Bauer.”
“They’ll find somebody else.”
“Sure, they can get somebody else to fill the job… but they can never replace you.”
I smiled sadly. “Thanks, Charlie.”
He asked for all the weapons MI6 had assigned me, and I handed them over. Two sniper rifles, five pistols, two suppressors, a shotgun, several grenades, and a boatload of ammunition.
