Chapter 19

“It’s going to be a while before you see me again, dear sister. I’ll try to drop the house keys at your office.”

A taxi cab soon stopped near where we stood as Bam-Bam suddenly gave me a long embrace, which ended with a kiss on my right cheek.

“Take care of yourself,” she whispered while banging on the passenger door. I waved at the vehicle until it sped out of sight. I smiled when I thought of the real reason she’d entered the taxi cab without haggling about the fare. It wasn’t because she had too much money, but rather because she didn’t want me to see the tears in her eyes. I briskly walked back to the flat and thought of my late mother once more. 

Thirty minutes later, I was knotting a black tie on a white shirt in front of a mirror in Bam-Bam’s bedroom. Then, I turned on the fan in the dining room and settled down with some biscuits and chocolates from the refrigerator. My face was