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Wasting no time, Tracy pulls her phone from her purse and boots it up A few seconds later and she’s holding her breath “Fuck,” she hisses, and that’s all I need to know that whatever happened, must be really bad; Tracy never curses

“What’s going on?” Austin asks her, and her eyes jump from him to me

“Walker, he… he wants to impeach you”

“Impeach me? That’s absurd! How the hell does he --”

“Austin,” Tracy whispers, lowering her voice and wetting her lips with her tongue “He said that your relationship is a fake one… He’s saying that you made a fool out of the country and out of your voters He’s saying all sorts of things about your integrity, and he’s calling for a special investigation”

Austin doesn’t say anything and Tracy goes to the television and turns it on

It’s the news The TV screens are usually on in here, but the one day they were off is the day that Speaker Walker has to try and impeach the President

You know? It’s like, can the universe give us a break?

Tracy turns up the volume

“And I have it on good authority, that the President of the United States, acting in collusion with his Chief of Staff, Tracy Coineered a situation to fool the Aoing to get married,” Walker says on television

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“Why, I don’t know, the President would want to do this, but this woate her and we need to rement,” he says

Tracy turns off the television The sounds of laughter and cheer, just a few o, have vanished

“Fuck,” Austinaround Tracy’s desk, he sinks down onto her chair, staring at the glass of chane in his hand, almost as if it held the answers he needs “Ashley, Tracy… The two of you, stay Everyone else, leave the room Please”

Nobody dares to question hi of feet as everyone rushes out of the office, and then someone closes the door The mood inside the office was a celebratory one, but now that mood has soured like a bad wine