Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

Author:Kia Abdullah [Abdullah, Kia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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I ask her how she feels and she says, ‘I don’t want to talk.’ There is a vulnerability to her, a desperate need, when she asks me to ‘just stay’ and cocoons herself against my body, her delicate fingers gripping my T-shirt like a child clinging to a parent. In that moment, I see the thing that exists in us all: a scared and worried child, fearful of the world around her. I hold her then and as she relaxes against me, I fall in love with my wife – a potential convicted killer – all over again.

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