“Hello? Adele, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know my period would come early. I ran out of sanitary pads last time and didn’t stock up, so I had to bother my brother.”
“Don’t be angry with him. If you must blame someone, blame me. My body is too weak and I’m not strong enough.”
Her manipulative tone left me seething with anger, unable to vent it. I felt so frustrated that I was about to explode.
“Stella, you know Theo is just your brother, not your husband. You’ve been clinging to him since before we got married. Now he has his own family. This is way too much, don’t you think?”
“He made me and my daughter take a taxi to the birthday party. If something happens in this heavy rain, who will be responsible?”
Before I could finish, Theo interrupted me coldly.
“Enough! Is there no one good in this world in your eyes? We live in a peaceful society. What kind of accident could happen? How come you always get into accidents?”
“It’s rare for Stella to ask me for help. Are you really being so petty?”
“If you have time to argue with me, you could have called ten taxis by now!”
With that, he hung up the phone roughly, leaving me breathing heavily in anger.