It’s like he is immune to the hostility I put out or he just does not care. Anyways I don’t care too.
‘Never let people see you c***k. Once they know they can get a rise out of you they can control you.’
That’s what my mama said to me one windy morning as we both stood at the window watching my dad drive off to meeting with the adviser to the prime minister.
The look on her face that windy day; so resolute and peaceful. A total contrast to the fast-darkening bruise on her face. How ironic that someone so frail took blows and punches that could put grown men to sleep.
Finding his dark solemn blue eyes I hold his stare. They reminded me of deep troubled waters, the blue no one ever sees. He holds my own gaze with equal intensity as I feign disinterest and boredom.
“King, you keep p
