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and I said that I could, given time, and he believed me. I think he

believed me.

The storm has started, just like they said it would. The rumble of

thunder wakes her, brings her to. She starts to make a noise, to move

around on the floor.

“You should go,” he says to me. “Go back upstairs.”

I kiss him on the lips and I leave him, but I don’t go back upstairs.

Instead I pick up the phone in the hallway, sit on the bottom stair and

listen, the handset in my hand, waiting for the right moment.

I can hear him talking to her, soft and low, and then I hear her. I think

she’s crying.

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