Chapter 22 : Brotherly Love

Kim had stayed with me for a few days, and it was much harder than I’d anticipated to deal with her. While the armlet’s influence had turned her dad angry and greedy, Kim was affected in a very different way. She was emotional and frightened by everything.

She was terrified that I was going to send her away, or that I was annoyed with her and that I wasn't going to be her friend anymore. I’d never known her to be so insecure.

It was hard to reassure her when I had so many other things on my mind. Tahir was insistent that he could handle the missing armlet without help. I didn’t believe him, mostly because he still had no idea who had taken it. Not that anyone else did either.

Kim told me that her dad had checked all of the security footage and no one else had gone into his office that day.