Father, Please.
“Father Aryan, are you really doing as he says? You going to bend over backwards and be intentionally rude to me because he said so?”
He sighs heavily and finally looks up at me, the deadness in his eyes is plain as day, it dawns on me suddenly that this deadness happened whenever he had to play the role of a priest, had to be the thing his father loved more than him, he was being something he hated, so of course he felt dead. Who wouldn’t?
“He is my boss, so pardon me for obeying my boss, if he says to never carry you again, deal, if he says to keep the relation professional, fine. So please Miss Patterson, do not cross the line either.”