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“What happened to your uncle?”
“He came too late.”
As if she knows what I am referring to, she nods. She has always used her words sparingly, and I listened, as if to soak up her wisdom.
When we reach him, the girl says, “Thank you.” Then she giggles at him and runs away. Somewhere in the future, I’ll see him taking care of our own children. The image warms my chest.
I introduce Sister Theodora to Kieran and Daniel, who asks me to show him around.
We leave them alone, and I can’t shake the feeling it’s more than curiosity that pushed Kieran to talk to Sister Theodora.
“Daniel, what is this about?”
He scratches his head and keeps his lips sealed.
I storm away, anger coursing through my veins, realizing what this visit is really about.
Aurora figured it out. It’s in her pissed expression, her flipping me off and stomping away. Daniel raises his hands, and I jerk my chin to follow her. I came here for this particular conversation, even if it makes her mad. She had her chance to tell me who the fuck he is.
If she were anyone else, I would have extracted that information any way I could. I tortured, maimed, killed, and yet I can’t bring my wife to tell me who the fucker is. She’s the exception. An exception that costs me all my patience, makes me teeter on the edge of sanity.
“You know why I am here.” I skip pleasantries. This is a woman of God. I am sure she can sense my dark soul, the sins tainting my hands.
“Tell me everything you know about him.”
She studies me, and she says, “You’re too young to be hardened like this.”
“Sister Theodora, I am not here for therapy.”
“That light in her shines brightest in the dark, but she needs the sun to replenish.”
Her words strike a very sensitive chord inside me.
Through a clenched jaw, I say “I will protect and take care of Aurora, trust me. Now, tell me.”
“Young man.”
“Kieran.”
“Young man, I am too old to give in to demands.” Her face takes on a hardened expression. I feel scolded for the first time in my life.
“So you trust this man, but don’t trust her husband.”
“It’s not about trust, it’s about my word.”
“What if she’s in danger and something happens because you don’t help me out?”
She pins her astute eyes on mine. “You’re cunning, manipulative. I don’t know if I like her with someone like you.”
“Excuse me, Sister, but I am all she’s going to get.”
For a second, I catch her lips twitching into a smile, but I blink and it’s gone.
“I am sure you will protect her, regardless.”
Frustration has me in a chokehold, and I call for patience.
“Why do you keep him a secret, like my wife?”
