" No." What?" The answer is no," he said."What are you talking about, I didn't even ask you anything," she said still hugging him."Well, when you do a...k, the answer will still be no. After ten years of marriage, I can tell by the sound of your voice you're about to asked something so I thought I'd save you the trouble, the answer is no."She let go, moved around to the front of her husband and put her arms around him again. She looked up at him and pushed out her bottom lip making a pouting. He tried to talk to me about it, but since I would already be withdrawn I wouldnt listen. And his attempts to break through to me just resulted in me getting angry and upset. Finally a marriage counselor helped us agree on a physical signal he could use that meant he felt I was shutting him out. We decided that the time for the signal would be in the morning before I got up. That way, I would find it after he had gone to work. Then, after I had time to think about it all day on my own, I could. During a break in the music, I heard the sound of furniture moving in a room on the second floor. When I looked outside, Asim’s car was nowhere to be seen. I checked the garage and that’s when an app on my phone told me the sensor for my room had gone off. I contacted K-T, who for the moment was parked at the back of the building, on the other side of the wall. She drove up to the gate and I got my pistol and my gloves from her secured glove box, plus a pair of yellow glasses MI6 recommends for. “What makes you think you can make that request after refusing to talk to me for nearly eight months? And equally importantly, without explaining Alexi? And without giving me the first clue about what you expect from me?”“Because of the deep, loving relationship we shared.”“Which you cast away,” I replied. “I’m not trying to absolve myself from the mistakes I made, but you walked away.”In fact, she’d walked away multiple times, and each time, in such a way that I couldn’t talk to her, and just.