Chapter 023

"What are you talking about all of a sudden?" Aliko Fred, Rhoda's father, asked her wife as if he had no idea what she was talking to him about.

Meredith made a face. "Of course, you know what I am talking about," she replied, still with the spoon she was using in the kitchen before she had come to talk to her husband. "I have been thinking about it and I'm still wondering why you've not done anything to it all these years."

Fred rubbed his forehead and he did this whenever he was nervous or scared. He might be in his fifties but that didn't mean he had no fears. And this was one of his biggest fears. He said nothing for a while.

"Fred?" His wife called. "You're not saying anything."

He looked at her from his seat in the living room after turning off the news he was watching on his phone. "Why would you suddenly want to look for her now? It's been like what? Twenty five years? Come on, Meredith, let's just…"

"Let's just what? You know I never liked the idea in the first place, but y