Chapter Fourteen
There was significantly less nature in Hong Kong than there was in Taiwan. Samantha wondered why she had chosen this place. Perhaps it was just a convenient flight from Taipei. Gordon’s presence on Green Island had disrupted what little she was enjoying about living there. After an evening drinking a bottle of wine with Maria and lots of emotion and tears, she realized the job wasn’t for her. Her perception of the entire country had been sullied by Gordon’s disruption. Maria had a friend who worked at the Taiwanese Embassy in Hong Kong. Technically, it was not an embassy; it was a cultural office, which is to say it was a de facto embassy.
Samantha, with Ella in tow, was standing on the opposite side of the street from the large building. It was about twenty feet in fron
