DANGEROUS LOVE
she said, "you want to come meet your in-laws?"
Heinz swallowed hard. "Mom, dad, I have something to say."
"Yes," Adira said, reaching for a cigarette with the kind of calm that was somehow more terrifying than yelling would have been.
Heinz gulped audibly. "I have a girlfriend."
Adira didn't even blink. "No, you don't."
"Huh??" Heinz's voice cracked, caught entirely off guard.
Before the conversation could spiral any further into confusion, Megat reappeared, sighing the long-suffering sigh of a man who had clearly already lost this particular argument once that day.