Episode 114

“You need to get some rest, hon. You’ve been out for a long time. Come, let me take your suitcase off and run you a warm bath,” I said, trying to divert his attention from what he had just asked me.

Johnson was one of my investigators, one of the ones I hired secretly to look for my son. Henry had found a lead and called the police for a raid. But the police didn’t show up. They said they had orders from above not to interfere.

And the orders came from me.

But Henry didn’t know that.

But of course, it was a futile attempt because I knew my husband way too well. He was not going to relent until he got an answer from me. He looked at me with suspicion and frustration in his eyes. His voice was tense and harsh.

“Excuse me, do you want me to repeat myself or do you want to be in big trouble right now?” he asked me sternly as I looked at him with wide eyes. He had never threatened me that way before. To be in big trouble. This must have been very serious for him to speak to me this way. I