Set up

CHAPTER 17

“What is your relationship with Mr. Ronald Wilson?”

I swallowed a lump around my throat to find my speech coherence. “He is the grandfather of my husband. As such my grandfather-in-law.”

She scribbled on her notepad and continued.

“Do you perhaps have some personal grudge against him maybe because of a past conflict or disagreement?”

Her question caught me off guard. Grimacing in confusion, I stammered, trying to reiterate my point, “No…no, I don’t. Why would I hold a grudge against a man who has been so good to me from the very first day he set his eyes on me…”

“I don’t know,” she shrugged nonchalantly. “You tell me.”

She was taking this the wrong way. Robert’s Grandpa and I have been on good terms right from the start. He was my late grandpa’s best friend. The long-standing promise they made to each other before my grandpa died was the only reason I got the chance to be this close to Robert as his wife after all those years of not seeing him and being far away from him. B