A little bit of literary daydreaming.
Joe threw back the sheets. What Valerie said couldn't be true. "You're analysis of my trip said what? What are you....you're working for your country again and against me all of a sudden?"
Valerie was stunned. She felt like she had been punched in the stomach. The one person whom she trusted with all her secrets since their third date had betrayed her. She never even suspected that he would write an newspaper article about his Niger trip.
She would have stopped it....not because of her position... but because she knew the real story behind Joe's trip and remembered the day when Mr. X sat down at her desk with HER file in his hand and turned to page 6.
She turned over and wished it would all go away...That he would go away and leave her and the twins to whatever destiny was before them.
She knew one thing: Country was first. Children were blood. Their love was free and would endure. Her husband's was conditional. It was at an end!!