14-Before me now

Yoké was asking me for his child. It then occurred to me that he didn’t know anything, not what happened. I had to tell him everything. It is his right to know and here he is demanding an answer.

I instinctively looked around as I realized that we were in public. The officers with nothing better to do at the gate were already watching us. Dad had warned me about the public, about protecting our company and not giving people reason to doubt our assurity. What worse reason than to be here in front of a prison with an ex-convict demanding for the child that was taken away from him? A child he now wanted to meet.

“Yoké, we can’t talk here.” I told him. “Let’s go to my apartment.”

“I don’t want to go anywhere with you, I want to know where my child is.” His voice firm and his face still with that frown.

“I know, but right now we are in publ