C16 Marianne

"Aki," I called out to him.

"Why are you meeting with him, mom?" Jack asked me with a deep, grave tone in his voice.

Meeting with whom? Was he talking about Benjie?

"Aki, please allow me to explain first," I said, attempting to calm him down.

"No, mom. I thought you didn't talk to each other at all? You said so yourself the last time, so why are you here with him?" Jack argued back