I picked up their worn books and began reading stories aloud. Slowly, the children gathered around me, their eyes bright with excitement. By afternoon, I didn’t want to leave. Their eager faces made my heart warm.
‘So this is what it feels like to be a teacher,’ I thought.
After the police officers finished setting up camp that evening, someone called us over for dinner.
We were still cooking when a villager ran up, shouting breathlessly, “Wolves! Wolves are in the village!”
The police officers immediately grabbed their weapons and followed the man into the dark. As for us, the police officers’ families, we stood frozen in fear. Why had wolves come into the village at this hour?
Serena walked over and looked at me with disdain.
“Hey, don’t think you’re so special just because you’re married to Fabio. If I wanted to, you’d be divorced in a second.”
I hadn’t expected her to be so shameless.
I gave a short, cold laugh as I told her, “Oh, really? Weren’t you the one who once called him useless?”
Serena’s face turned red as she tried to defend herself, responding, “I didn’t say that! Don’t twist my words.”
“You know very well what you said.”