She had a hard time convincing herself.
The silence stretched for several minutes before Khalil spoke. “I take it that it didn’t go well?” He sat in the doorway, looking outside as he spoke.
Zaid didn’t respond and Kinza’s anger bubbled up again. “Why didn’t you say anything?” she asked, looking at him in the corner, eyes closed like nothing in the world was wrong and he just needed a little nap. “Why didn’t you defend me? You know those were lies.”
know Zaid just stayed where he was, eyes closed and unresponsive. Kinza found hot, angry tears welling back up in her eyes. She felt drained and exhausted and abandoned. So that was it then? He really thought she was guilty? After all that?
“What happened?” Khalil asked, calmly.
Zaid still didn’t bother saying anything and it took Kinza se
