"Madam Cara is dead?"
Daunted, he was on his knees & eyes wide open, he stayed like that for moments, when his head nodded down and he rubbed his eyes, he took a deep breath & looked at me. It took a while for him to accept it.
Then I narrated everything that happened so far, what happened to me, to her, how I became a criminal and fled the country patiently. He listened to the end & when I fished he stood up pushing his knees.
"You really went through some real hard times kid,
And here I was still waiting for her like a fool, wasting all these years in this hell hoping she would call for me again, but we can't change the past now huh?."
He turned his back and treaded to the counter.
'How do you know my mother?'
"Really you wanna know?"
"Yes!"
"Well it goes back a long time when you weren't even born, she was my… wait, You said she never told you anything about the past right?" She
'Yes, she told me, she'll tell me everything when it will be the right time.'
