“We wouldn’t want to impose—”
“It’s no imposition.”
He stood there for a beat, then looked at the girl. “Min, let’s go.”
“You could use the phone if you need to,” I added. “Call a tow.”
“Probably easier to just go ourselves.”
Because the child had not taken a step toward him, the man took one toward her. And so I did the same, just to see how he’d respond. He bristled. But she didn’t. So, I closed a few more inches between us. She watched me watch her as he watched me watch her. The quiet lagged.
What I saw unfolding in my kitchen was all kinds of wrong. I felt it right away, but what do you say when you think someone isn’t telling you the whole truth? There ain’t no proper way to call someone a liar—a deceiver. Especially when that someone is a stranger. You don’t know his habits. H
