Interrupted Again

Just the amount of work and planning that went into these couple of months and the following months, was equivalent to years worth for them. He was just stressed thinking amount of interconnected plans and all the time sensitive ones they had in the works. Just two weeks ago they successfully took out one of their targets, with this streak going a woman might complicate things. 

Part of his feelings emerged from just how different it was having a woman in the mix. Both of them had been single for years, anything that did happen was casual. That meant that there were no extra considerations for the people in their lives, they could just do what they wanted. He was no uncomfortable with Xi Long having a woman and their friendship potentially breaking. There was no fear like that which was common for other best friends in this situation. It was just that he was in hyperdrive trying to make everything 'fit.'