In the Blind. Eugene Marten

know anything about the law?” he asked me.

      I shrugged. I’d learned some things.

      “You think if she could prove adultery, she could take the business away from me?

      “I don’t think she could get any more of it than she already had.” I wasn’t sure but it made sense and he needed to hear something.

      “You think the settlement is nullify if she can prove?”

      “I don’t know,” I said. “Maybe.”

      We drove a little further, and then he said, “Maybe someone try to talk to you sometime.”

      “What do you mean?”

      “Maybe someone come to ask you questions—lawyer, detective. Maybe we go back to court and you have to testify. What you going to tell them?”

      I didn’t know where we were going and I didn’t want him to ask me to lie for him. “Have you thought of putting the business in Yusuf’s name?”