The Rejected Bride
he pats Yusuf on the shoulder, “my brother here. So, I came back to make peace. Dad was happy to see me and invited us up to his room to have a few drinks. Isn’t that right, Yusuf ?”
Yusuf nods. “It’s true.”
The officer nods and scribbles. “So, you two left him here hale and hearty?”
“Well, I did,” Ibrahim says. “I left him with Yusuf, so Lord knows what happened afterwards.”
“After the heated argument you had with Dad, you mean,” Yusuf retorts. “Since we’re going into specifics, we might as well drill down to the small details.”
“My father and I were still passionate about what happened earlier in the day, and I guess the wine made us more loose-lipped than we ordinarily would have been,” I