Chapter 36

Mpumi was still preparing to go out with Dion. It was yet another day to beg. She was packing the breakfast plates away.

“I’m sorry,” she heard Dion say.

“Dion?”

“I never treated you right.”

“I never held a grudge.”

“I was bad.”

“You didn’t know better.”

He took a deep breath to start opening up, she saw the tear run down his eye, “All my life… Listen, I haven’t been a good person.”

Mpumi knew that he wanted to talk. She knew that it was right to be an ear to someone who wanted to speak up about something. She learnt that it was trust. He had grown to trust her. She remained silent that while.

“I made people suffer without thinking twice about it. Men and women with children, with responsibilities. I was horrible. I didn’t help anyone with all the resources I had; I also didn’t think that I would