Chapter Eleven
Yet I felt Sumaya’s body touching me, and dreamed I was stroking her lips and breasts with my hands, and that my fingers were playing with her hair, spreading it upon the pillow, and drawing a lock towards my eyes and lips. I heard her say, ‘Two years, two whole years….’ And I said, ‘Ten years, twenty, fifty, why, why did you flee from me? Why?’ And she said, ‘I won’t flee again, I won’t flee, Amin.’
And again I ran my hand over the body lying next to me. What a wondrous fantasy! A real body. Is this how dreams come true?…Her belly…her waist…and suddenly I opened my eyes, and terror struck me. Every hair on my body stood up in fright, and I screamed at the top of my lungs, ‘Sumaya!!’ And the night was filled with my cry.
The reclining woman sat up and screamed, ‘My love,
