The End Game (41 page)
I didn’t expect anything less. Not from President Yorke. He was no pushover.
But I wasn’t biting.
“Of course it is,” I insisted calmly. “You’ll find an excuse. Family priorities. Health issues. Make something up. Happens all the time. We live in a world of spin, remember?”
He pondered some more, then he said, “Let me think about it. I’m sure I can come up with something else that’ll satisfy you. Some other solution that’ll work for us both. How about that? Will you let me do that?”
For all I knew, he’d be giving the order to have me shipped off to Guantanamo or set into the concrete foundations of some highway overpass the second I stepped out of his office. But somehow, and despite everything I now knew about his past, I didn’t think Hank Yorke, the president, would do that.
“No,” I told him, firmly. “There are only two possible ways this plays out. You do as I ask. Or it all comes out. And FYI . . . Janitors or anyone else comes after me? The whole thing goes live. Big time. The cork pops and there’s no way of putting that genie back in the bottle. You really don’t want to go there. Trust me.”
“Oh, I don’t doubt that for a moment, Reilly.”
We didn’t shake hands.
I walked out of there, hoping I hadn’t unleashed a trunkload of pain on myself.
I didn’t think I had.
But I guess only time will tell.
THE END
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