Thursday trickery

“You tricked him into this life.”

I looked up from my reading. “Excuse me?”

Farrah’s eyes narrowed as she slammed down her drink. “You heard me. You stole him. You deluded him with whatever dreams of grandeur and made him give up everything he was meant for.”

Wasn’t she over it after all these years? I closed my folder and looked her in the face. “Maybe I did talk to him. I tried to get a point across, but everything after....that was all his doing.”

“You’re lying.”

“You wish I was,” I said.

I never told Emil about this encounter.