Chapter 24

He stopped right in front of me. His Adam's apple bobbed several times before he spoke. His voice was so hoarse it had almost lost its original timbre. "She was telling the truth. I never touched her." I didn't say anything. "Six years ago, she came to me and said she was pregnant with my child. I was drunk that night, I couldn't remember anything. She got on her knees and begged me. She used her asthma attacks to threaten me, saying if I didn't marry her, she would jump off the terrace of...