Chapter 78: Trust no one

***ESTHER***

I am just so much shocked to hear him talk about my dad. I have never heard anyone talk about my dad after that accident. You know what, Mr. Payne was my dad’s classmate but I have never heard him talk about my dad all this time.

“How do you know about my dad?” I ask.

“So, you’re his daughter?” he asks.

“Yes, I am his daughter but how do you know about my dad?” I reiterate.

“I was incharge of his case. The one in which there was huge embezzlement of money. And in the one in which he was killed,” he says.

“Killed? What do you mean by killed? M dad wasn’t killed. It was an accident,” I say.

He laughs as he hears that and looks at his daughter for a while and then looks back to me.

“Can I talk to you for a bit? I think we have a long history to discuss right now,” he says. I don’t know but for some reason, it makes me want to listen to him and hear what he has to tell me about my dad.

“Well! Let’s go to my office,” he says. I look back at Daisy. She calms me as she