“Okay, so I was really upset,” Eisen admitted, voice downtrodden because he hated that he’d reacted as he did. “But put yourself in my shoes, Rory. I know I screwed up. Went so far as to apologize to Ed. It was the first time ever you wouldn’t answer the phone, even to tell me that you didn’t want to talk. Then that post…I don’t know. Just took me off guard, to say the least.”
He did understand, of course he understood. Rory’s position made the spot between a rock and a hard place look easy. Still, he expected a little bit of sympathy from the man he’d given it to a thousand times without question. Not anger, not being flat-out ignored. Rock and a hard place had been his mantra through. And every time he thought of it, a small part of him would at least have tried to remain an impartial third party.