As Lek was being driven into work on Monday morning, she reflected on the miserable weekend she had had. She had hardly spoken to Craig, although they hadn’t rowed. He was busy having a good time with a bunch of falang, but she didn’t begrudge him that, it didn’t happen often and she had spent hours talking to her daughter about their new house and to Ayr about what to do about Tong.
She was trying to keep out of the ‘debate’ Soom was having with Mike, but she could not do that with regard to the road. Ayr had helped her to see that she had two options if she was going to remain in politics: either side with the goodies or with the baddies, because there was no middle road. If you were corruptible, you were earning good money, but if you were straight, you were on a bog-standard wage and
