“Me too. But what could we have done? She married the wrong man. It seems the only person who encourages her to leave the monster is me. Only me.”
“It is not that simple. I’m afraid that even after she has left him, she wouldn’t give up the two sons. Not either of them. She is just such a mother.”
“Do you think Mei is fi ne?”
A condemned silence was hanging on the phone.
Suddenly a stronger wind was making two rows of windows rattle like crazy. I shook and I panicked, standing looking at a vivid ashy stain with a pattern resembling the lovely face of Mei on a broken tile misplaced on the fl oor of a lonely building. Somewhere in my heart, there was a scratch with an unbearable quality. A feeling of great uncertainty was crawling under my skin, as though each and every bone of mine was repeating the same question and listening.