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If she was smart, she’d ask him to leave Tell him the conversation was over and show hi to do as right Always trying to pay penance for the way she’d lived her life as a teen Instead of sticking with the character she’d created for herself, she said, “I’ sex with you and your one boring position makes me a whore”
Chris bent forward until his nose was millimeters away from hers “You knohat? My career is important I’m a corporate attorney, for fuck’s sake I can’t take you to meet clients, or to company functions like this You’re an eht dead with you on , but she wasn’t scared
Fury is what she felt
“So why the hell are you here?” she asked, throwing her hands up and taking three steps back “Why would you claim we haven’t broken up if I’m such an embarrassment? If I’m such a whore If you can’t stand to be seen with me”
“Because I have no choice” He spun and paced away fro to sit on her couch
“No choice? This conversation is getting really tired, Chris You have three seconds to explain yourself before I kick you out Which is three secondsthe way you just spoke to me”
He sagged like a balloon that just had its air let out All the anger and ugliness he’d carried into her house disappeared and what remained was a defeated man “They passed me by,” he said, in a voice so low she had to ain for junior partner”
A sheen of tears glistened in his eyes
Mark never really discussed business with her He kept his opinions about Chris’s work perfor business fro into Toni at fir They didn’t need to talk about it afterward She appreciated the distance, never wanting her relationship with Mark to cause Chris issues at the office
As far Toni knew, her uncle never had any gripes about Chris’s work performance But would he have h he let it be known he didn’t think Chris was the rightto do with poor performance at work and he’d never wanted to voice the concern
With a sigh, she relaxed her posture and tried to be sympathetic to Chris’s troubles “I’m sorry about that, Chris” And she was She understood spewing vile words under iretted when the dust settled But no a her a whore Still, she’d try to deescalate the argument