Chapter 17
Something, a sound, woke me and I started, sitting up in bed. Where was I?
Lei. I was in Lei’s bedroom. There was a narrow slit in the curtains showing me a gray-blue sky. I checked the alarm clock. It was a little after nine in the morning and someone was knocking on the front door. I glanced down at Lei. He was out cold.
There was another knock—this one a little more insistent, and I sat there, wide-eyed. If this was a family member knocking, they wouldn’t go away so easily. “Lei…” I shook him a little.
“No,” he nearly growled, turning his face away. “Ten minutes.”
“Someone’s at the door.”
“No,” he said again, his voice muffled by the pillow. “Ten minutes.” Seconds later, he was snoring lightly.
There was no way I could get him out of bed. When the bell rang, I crept ou
