"Isn't it, apart from anything else, unbelievably reckless?" Al asked. "I mean, you're the PM for f**k's sake. It's inevitable someone was going to find out eventually."
"I know. Christ, I've always known. It's been there the entire time. A huge dead weight. An elephant in the corner. A dark shadow. Choose your own cliché."
"Then why continue with it? If it's such a massive threat, why continue with it?"
"Because I love her, and I can't live without her."
"She means that much to you?"
"You wouldn't understand."
Maybe, Al thought to himself, maybe not.
Hannah was in full panic mode now. She was sat on a sofa with this stranger, who was threatening to turn her world upside down.
"You can't tell anyone!" Hannah said, urgently. "You can't tell a single person!"
"I won't. I promise. I
