“Do you expect me to believe that after what happened? Why would your sister do that to you?” he asked.
“My parents owe me money, but they refused to pay me back after I got married,” she revealed. “My sister also doesn’t want them to pay me, so that’s why she likes picking fights with me.”
“Is that all?” Jacob asked, still looking at her closely. Her story still didn’t make sense to him. What he would rather know was why her family owed her money. And why they didn’t want to pay her back. Why was her relationship with them so bad?
“It is,” she confirmed, and then looked up to meet his gaze again. “What else could there be to it?”
He wanted to ask about why she had a poor relationship with her family, but decided to shelve that. If she wanted to tell him, she would.
“Nothing,” he said
