Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Eight
The Fame 12
They looked at her again. This time, the children were beginning to tear up. Their mother's silence was scaring. They decided to open up, thinking it would save them and their mother. The girl responded.
"She is our mother, but we call her aunty."
"Why do you call her aunty instead of mother?"
"She doesn't like us to call her mother."
Answered the boy. Now, the wimpy children were already crying as things were becoming messy, and they were utterly on their own. They knew that their mother was not happy with them, so they would be punished. Notwithstanding their pitiful state, the CSO continued.
"Where is your father?"
Now, the children stopped crying abruptly and looked at their miserable mother who was bewildered because she knew she did not have the answer to the question, so, she kept mute. She had never thought that her plans would not work.
