of sips of her coffee.
“Look, I don’t expect you to buy into the truth–” Tim snorted again at the use of the word “–but honestly it doesn’t matter whether you believe me or not. We call them ‘They’, and Granger is a powerful member with deep connections. You will never bring him down.”
“I don’t want to bring him down,” Tim replied. “I want him to leave me alone. I want him off my back so I can pursue the agenda I ran for election on. I want to be rid of his money and his influence. I want the freedom to do my job without being beholden to corporate interests.”
“You would never have been elected without him,” Kirsty said.
“Well that’s… true,” Tim admitted. It made him uncomfortable to say it but she was right. Before Granger injected his cash into Tim’s campaign, nobody knew who the hell he was and he would likely have sunk in a sea of candidates vying for his seat. “But he broke his side of the deal. He said he wouldn’t have demands. He said he liked my policies and wanted to see me go far.”
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