AHYAN After we’ve had dinner, everyone scrambles up from the table to help Annem. Since Ela is asleep in my arms, all I can do is watch them clean up. My eyes catch Nur yawning and I realise how tired I am myself. Thinking of sleep makes me think of the sleeping arrangement and . . . Oh hell. Nur and I have to sleep in the same room. I can faintly hear Nur talking to Annem and the clattering of dishes. Shifting Ela around in my arms, I get up from the chair and walk towards the room that the girls share to put Ela in bed. Now that I’ve held these girls in my arms and have played with them, I miss the other two even more. Zeynep is at the bakery helping Ayşe and I hate that. I don’t want my sisters to work. What the hell was I even thinking leaving them to fend for themselves. I alw

