Chapter 25
BALQIS'S POV My mind wasn't at rest. I've been receiving several calls from different parents, wanting to ask me one thing or the other. As the new PTA chairman, my phone number and house address have been automatically dropped on the school blog. “Is it true that you really murdered that girl?” “Is your small son a school bully?” I was tired of receiving questions for which I couldn't provide an answer. I just had to switch off my phone and get dinner ready. “Mommy why did Isis's dad hate me?” Riot asked suddenly, looking up from his school books. “I noticed that you always look at me somehow” My heart trembled. “Of… of course not. Why will he hate you?” “Mommy?” He got up and approached me in the kitchen. “On the day of your arrest, I really said bad things to him. I…” His gaze
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