I awoke in the same suite to a phone call from Trevor Burham, âLook, mate, donât worry about putting this on your own tab. The new government is set to take office and Iâm already having doubts. Remember when Annie assured me that nothing would be different? Well, just this very morning, man, she told me that she hoped that last night was great for me, because it would be âa good long time before you get to stick that sausage back in my pudding.â She also laughed and told me that swearing on a stack of Bibles was meaningless to her, because she didnât believe in that âpatriarchal rubbish,â anyway.
âAnyway, feel free to take the firm for a sweet, costly ride. I plan to do just that myself. I donât know what the travel mess will be once they consolidate their power, but for now, a holiday in Montreal sounds rather pleasant to me. Thereâs any amount of business that can in theory be done there, since theyâre still in the Commonwealth. From there, well, a rendezvous would be easier to arrange. In person. I shall take my sons out of the country, of course, but since itâs a holiday, what can she do? What happens to me is one thing, but her current duplicity makes me believe that she intends something nasty for them, too. I still have my Canadian passport, after all,â Trevor curtly informed him while Nina listened in with them.
âWhere are you? And is this your regular cell? If it is, get a burner, mate. Get a burner phone pronto! Let me guess, youâre starting a new firm outside of the UK as quickly as you can,â I speculated.
âBingo, and only with those staff smart enough to make a dash for it. I doubt that we shall be the only executives to abandon our firms on the sly. And, yes, this is a burner phone. How daft do you think that I am? I withdrew what funds I could to help purchase it, plus I wanted to keep her as poor as I could. I shanât be around when she seizes my assets back home. Thatâs a loss that Iâll have to cut when the divorce goes through. I shanât lose any sleep over what I did. Iâm just glad that I acted before they could freeze the account.
âThankfully, Her Majestyâs Government still has to present its first bill and that canât happen until the next session. The Queenâs Speech should be very chilling this year, I dare say. If I were an MP, I shanât even stick around for Question Time. Trust me, I can find a position for you, both of you, until or unless you opt for something else. My present firm will soon be in arrears, though regrettably, the new female management are likely to see that as proof that men are inept or something. Since they probably already think that way, itâs more than worth it to give them one last good rogering. I really hope that they put Melinda in charge. Sheâll soon be up to her neck in red ink,â Trevor laughed with some hushed excitement.
âSo, in a nutshell, Annieâs a fucking liar and youâre about to turn thief. This is what politics does to marriage, husbands and wives alike. I shanât miss Christine, thatâs to be sure,â I noted.
âAnyway, here I go. Wish me luck, mates, and by Jove, even half of yours would be nice. Fortunate bastard, being out of the country when the curtain dropped. Not an iron curtain this time, chap. Just a satin one. Goodbye and give Nina my love. Sheâll take much better care of you than Christine or Annie ever could. Sheâs a right proper woman, that Punjabi girl,â Trevor hung up, leaving me with a feeling of real dread.
âIs it just me, or did that phone call raise your hackles, too?â Nina remarked.
âNo, it isnât just you, darling. Iâm more than a little bothered by it myself. I wish him the best, but I fear for the worst. He might well have waited too long. I hope that Iâm wrong. If Iâm right, the lucky escape will be death. Anything else shall be even worse than that. I donât even wish to contemplate it. I fear for him, rather greatly in fact. I definitely donât plan on adjusting our plans for him or even considering it until I know that heâs safely out of Great Britain. No sane fellow would stay in that country right now, except maybe in Scotland, and even that is not quite clear,â I fretted a bit over Trevorâs uncertain fate.
In fact, not more than three minutes after Trevor called from that burner phone, there was another call from that same number. The voice on the other end was unfamiliar, chilling, and definitely feminine. I didnât know who this was, but it unnerved me.
âThe chap who held this phone has made a run for it. I donât know who you are or even where the bloody hell you are, but if youâre a subversive, as I think that you are, know this: we shall find him, and then we shall grab you as well. The fool evidently didnât know that his wife had him followed, tagged. A bloody good thing that she did. He shall never be able to take his sons out of England, not now, not ever. This is a brand new country and you blokes donât get to cut and run from it. You donât get to vote with your feet. You never get to vote on anything again. Youâre our prisoners and you shall never break free,â the icy, posh accent told me, making my blood run cold.
âYou cunts are sorely mistaken. I would recommend not making any threats across the pond, bitch. Iâm already gone and Iâm never coming back. Iâm defecting to the United States. At least for now. Maybe Australia later, maybe South Africa. Iâm never coming back home. The man that you seek is a Jew. He has the Right of Return to Israel. Heâll get out and youâll never see him again,â I deliberately fed my contact a lie ... Trevor Burham was as goy as me.