‘Cristobel, what I am about to tell you might come as a rude shock to you. It may look like a tale but it is the truth and you have to accept it as it is because that is the way it is’, Joachim dropped the bombshell. One would hear a pin drop in the silence that followed.
The incidence at the supermarket was not a happenchance; it was all planned and executed under the direction of Marete her husband. Joachim the purported manager of the electronic firm was just a colleague of Marete at work in whom the latter had great respect for and confided in on many issues. He had three days earlier called the younger man to his office and asked him to do him a favor, which was to deliver some message to Cristobel. But it was to be done in a way not to arouse any suspicion.
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