CHAPTER 5- Pandora -
Heading back into the city, the traffic is tediously slow. While only the privileged still have the means to run their vehicles, everyone who can has chosen this particular moment to be on the road. Impatience emanates from Matiu in waves, like heat rippling off the hot asphalt.
Actually, he’s been acting weird all day. Even more weird than usual. All that muttering and scowling. And the pained looks. Anyone would think his appendix was about to burst.
The woman seemed to accept Penny’s phoney explanation, but what was it in the apartment that had him so distressed? So wounded. And was whatever prompted his reaction—his over-reaction—the cause of his sudden flip flop? Because, on the way over here, Matiu was adamant she shouldn’t take the case, insisting there was s
