"It was—it was—" She looked as though she were on the verge of fainting in front of him. "He—he said I treated my job like it mattered more than our relationship. That I—always based my decisions on it, rather than him. It was—it was supposed to—" her throat bobbed, "to spice things up. I didn’t know it was going to be—like that. He promised it was very discreet."