NOLAN

"Why demote me? What have I...."

"Get out," he said gently, much to my annoyance. Who the hell does he think he is? An arranged boyfriend of Rubby? Anything more than that?

"Bastard!" I muttered the moment I stepped out of his office I tightened my grip on the letter of demotion, crumpling it as I fought the urge to go back into his office and hurl every kind of insult I could mutter.

I had anticipated something terrible from him, but for Christ's sake, why a demotion? It was ...