Chapter 90 FALSE ACCUSATION

I stopped the car.

“What’s the problem?” I asked.

I was really confused. What has happened? Has she found out about Esther? If that’s not the case, what is making her to cry?

“Tala, what’s the problem? Why are you crying?”

She did not answer me and for a long moment we sat there waiting for her to calm down, and to tell me what the problem was. I waited in anticipation, knowing that whatever she was going to talk about wasn’t going to be good. Why else would she be crying?

“Did you have a fight with your mom?” I asked.

Still, she said nothing. But by this time, she had stopped crying; she was sniffling.

I waited for another five minutes. She had cleaned her eyes then, and she made sure she wasn’t looking at my face.

“Tala, what’s the problem?”

“Don’t you know?” she said.

“Know what?”

“You know!”

“How can I know what’s on your mind?” I asked.

She kept silent. I was getting irritated by the minute.

I really, really didn’t know what she was talking about. Except, of course, if she had fo