Chapter 17

“Excuse me?!” I snapped when I finally got my emotions under control. “Who are you to tell me that?”

“I need to know who their father is.”

“And what would that do for you? Would that help your school go up the ranks of best school in the area? This is not what you should be asking me.”

“You could have just said they don’t have a father and I would accept it and let you be. All of this back and forth is not necessary.”

That was the last straw as I was shocked beyond words. In all my years on the earth, no one had ever spoken to me like that before. This woman had crossed her boundaries but she was still trying to be right even when she was wrong.

I decided that I was going to put her in her place. I would not be insulted in public like this.

I could see lots of people walking about and looking at us. My children who were beginning to get scared huddled around me like birds to their mother as my maternal instincts kicked in.

“What right have you to talk to me in that manner?!” I snapped