Don't Catch Me!

Don't Catch Me! Epilogue (Bonus Chapter!)

Epilogue

I hated these freaking chairs.  I sank further into the overly soft sofa outside his office.  I hate everything about his freaking office.  The stupid, unnecessary flowers, the smarmy assistant trying unsuccessfully to look like she had something to do, the large doors meant to make him look important and these freaking sofas.  It was the traps of complacency.  The company was complacent and soft.  Just like the freaking sofa. 

I took a deep breath as I carefully controlled my expression.  My face was my own.  No one had the right to know what I was thinking.  Only I should know how much I wanted to rip everything in this room to shreds.  I wasn’t stupid enough to show my contempt.  I knew how to play the game.

I controlled my rage and internalised the pain.  The company wasn’t the only one who had been complacent.  Hell what did that woman do to me?  How the hell did she make me so ineffectual?  Too many times she had gotten under my skin and invaded my head.  Never again.

I had first met her when we started to see the potential in Joel.  Meeting the wife was part of weighing up the risks.  Hell and what a risk she was.  She played me right from the start.  She drove me mad until I couldn’t stand it any longer and then she had me wrapped around her little finger.  Female attention I have never lacked but with her it was different.  With her I had no control.  And I did everything she asked.  Of course I justified it to the company as part and parcel of bringing Joel on board.   But it wasn’t.  I even overstepped my mark and arranged Grant’s little accident.  That caused some tension at work but I was the golden haired boy back then.  I was bringing in Joel Anderson.  I was on the fast track for great things. 

Then it all changed.  Joel said no.  Again.  This time he said no to the Chief Executive.  Hell the first I knew about it was when my boss nearly had a hernia and went into cardiac arrest at the same time as he screamed at me. 

He took me off the case.  He sidelined me!  Me?  Suddenly the field agent promotion disappeared as did her attention.  I could no longer get her what she needed and she dumped me so fast my head was spinning.  The freaking cow, it wasn’t my fault it was hers.

We stood on that damn bridge as she coldly told me that I wasn’t good enough for her.  That officer Colman was now in charge of her case and that he would be taking care of her needs, all of her needs.  Bitch.  She deserved what she got.

“Field Agent Blair, the chief inspector will see you now.”

About bloody time.

“Blair, I’ve been on the phone all morning.  What the hell happened?  It was a simple freaking change over!  How the hell did you lose our best operative, again!  What the hell is wrong with you Blair?”

I stared at my boss, carefully swallowing my writhing fury. 

What was the point? 

“That’s it, you are off the case and you can kiss your promotion goodbye!”

“I don’t think so,” my eyes never left his red exasperated face.

Calmly I withdrew the envelope from the pocket in the lining of my suit jacket.  After the last time I vowed never to let them dismiss me again. 

The evidence fell to the desk with a thud.  The Chief Inspector glanced down at the paperwork and photos that now littered his desk.

“I don’t think so,” I repeated carefully keeping my emotions to myself.  “I don’t think you want to do that.”

“What the hell, Blair?” his fingers combed through his hair as his mouth opened and closed with no sound resulting.

“You will leave me on this case.  You will not revoke my field agent status.  And I will find them and bring them back.”

“Blair, you can’t afford to stuff this up.  This blackmail will only get you so far.  Soon this will be out of my hands.  This is Joel we are talking about.  You know what he represents.  You know how important he is.  The people above me won’t accept failure.”

I turned towards the door.  “I don’t care.  This belongs to me.”

This was mine and this time, yes, this time I was going to win.  This time she would be the one begging.

This time it would be different.

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Don't Catch Me!

©2011 Maree O’Brien