Later, close to dawn, I woke up as though a gun had gone off. My heart was pounding. Nightmare? I couldn’t remember. But the sky was still dark. I needed a glass of a water and maybe a Tylenol.
Where was Lei?
I untangled myself out of the sheets and went to the washroom to clean up. After I’d popped a pill and quenched my thirst, I slipped on a pair of boxers and went looking for him. In the living room, there were vestiges of our party, but no Lei. I had a feeling I knew where he was. Question was—should I check on him or let him be?
Too concerned to return to bed without him, I crept down the hallway, expecting to find him shut up in that room, but when I came near the door, I was bewildered to see the door was half open. I recoiled from the doorway as though glimpsing the inside of t
