15. Heart of Glass
********* thought he heard a rustling in the trees just outside the window above his bed. He could not be sure. He had to leave.
Sam did not know who to text in that moment. He did not want to go out with Sandra. Alim had disappeared entirely. He couldn’t bother Ayi at that hour. So Sam put a change of underwear and a toothbrush in a backpack and left, not intending to return that night.
As Sam passed Building 46 and with nowhere else to go, he thought to visit Yu Chun and see Meifeng. Her face pleased him, and he needed comforting. There, Meifeng might text Little Chen to arrange another meeting in the garden, where he would ask for the names of the guard and the Chinese teacher involved in Wang Wei’s suicide.
Sam went along the back way, through the alley of lovers
