where are my keys?” She’d gone in the back. “Wadiya!”
The van was in the parking lot next to the shop, a small fenced enclosure. The gate was padlocked after hours, there was barbed wire on top. No one had managed to steal the van since the barbed wire.
Ibrahim gestured at the van and it chirped, the lights flashed. I’d never had one of those. There was a laptop computer in front of the dashboard between the seats, and I’d never had one of those, either. It swung on a movable arm but I wasn’t sure what Ibrahim did with it. I’d used one the last time I’d had a job, but it sat on a desk and I only knew what I’d needed to know about it.
We pulled out.
“Is not far,” Ibrahim said. “I appreciate this.”
“You’re taking care of business.”
“But some people,” he said, “when it comes to the money—”
“I know,” I said.
“I want this to be like family. Family has to trust each other.”
“I know,” I said. I’d almost said I trusted him. It wasn’t that I didn’t, I just didn’t want to be part of another family. I didn’t want to belong in that way.
I didn’t know where we were going.
“You know anything about the law?” he asked me.
I shrugged. I’d learned some things.
“You think if she could prove adultery, she could take the business away from me?
“I don’t think she could get any more of it than she already had.” I wasn’t sure but it made sense and he needed to hear something.
“You think the settlement is nullify if she can prove?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “Maybe.”
We drove a little further, and then he said, “Maybe someone try to talk to you sometime.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe someone come to ask you questions—lawyer, detective. Maybe we go back to court and you have to testify. What you going to tell them?”
I didn’t know where we were going and I didn’t want him to ask me to lie for him. “Have you thought of putting the business in Yusuf’s name?”
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