All his acts of ‘heroism’ ... they were just a trick to lure us into a false sense of security! He was just waiting to work with his alien allies ...o bring us down all along! Well I saw through his schemes ... his and Devereux’s! They just wanted to oust me from my position, but I was too smart for them, for all of them! Just wait, I’ll teach anyone who crosses me...”Mishra listened to Buckingham’s ranting in shocked silence. With appalling clarity, she realised he’d finally snapped. Her mind. Carole was at her wit’s end between her work, keeping the house together and dealing with two young sons.”I had to interrupt again, “You do realize that the military has resources to help the families of deployed servicemen?”“I wasn’t aware of it specifically, but I can see how that would be so.”“Yet, instead of calling her husband, or military family affairs, she calls her lover! My apologies, I keep interrupting, I assume this is what led to the ‘portrait’?”“Yes, Antonio helped with her boys,. I haven't been since I asked God to get me out of Afghanistan. I assumed that God's idea was a gut full of truck parts propelled by an IED. We parted ways and since then I had found nothing to change my mind.I didn't object to others having faith and practicing it, but in my opinion you were either in business or not. If you were, then you needed to do it like everyone else, or expect them to find someone more suited to their needs. If I had my boiler go out in the middle of the night, I would. "So you better come soon. I'll do my part." He smiled and held up the remote with the button still pressed.He moved back to the first nipple and circled it with his finger. He saw Lauren's right hand dip below her dress and press the underwear against her. He pulled the nipple, watching the elastic, pink skin lengthen out before it snapped back. Lauren groaned but in pleasure not in pain. Glen looked at the vision before him. Lauren's hips gyrated against the seat and her hand moved beneath her.