Fifty-two

"Didn't you all hear my question? I said, who had the audacity to disrespect my wife?" He barked at everyone again.

I tugged at the sleeve of his shirt which was now a powdered blue instead of white. I didn't fail to notice that his tie was gone too and his trouser was now black instead of red. This means he had changed before coming here.

"The media people are filming," I reminded him.

"I know." He answered me. "No one to answer?" He asked again.

I heard Susie click her tongue loudly and I buried my head deeper into Xavier's shirt, knowing the chaos my best friend was about to cause. She would fuel Xavier's burning anger.

"It's her," she pointed to Celine first. "And her." Her middle finger rested on Laura whom I now remembered her name. "They both dared to call Hailey a whore." She said.

"Have you no shame, Celine? To insult a woman like you? And then, dragging her family into the insults?" Xavier reprimanded the woman.

"No shame at all," Susie coughed out.

Celine looked like she wo