No.52

POV Brian

Lisa doesn't even give me time to speak as she's already hung up. I look at my phone with a puzzled expression. What the hell just happened there? I wanted to invite her to dinner and I would have offered her a book by one of her favorite authors, a brand new release that I had signed. If only she knew how much money it cost me to have that copy of the book signed! I pick up the book and throw it on the floor. Luckily for me, my wife isn't here, she's gone away for a few days to see her mother. So much the better, at least this way I won't have to put up with her Botox-filled face. I walk the length of my room, disturbed by what Lisa has said. What could she be talking about? All the harm my family and I had done to hers? What kind of story is that? What evil is she talking about? I get up and run out of my room, then down the stairs.

"Honey, are you there? "

I go downstairs to find my mother in the small living room where she is comfortably installed and I place a kiss on