Chapter 20 • Abandoned
Another week began without any prospect of enjoyment. Dimitri’s condition had clearly improved physically. His rib hurt less and was less of an obstacle to his movements. When he carefully removed the bandage from his head, the only thing to be seen was the bald patch, which he had no difficulty in hiding by combing his hair over it. But his emotions were quite another matter.
He wanted Anne. He had lost her without knowing why. He thought fleetingly of confiding his problem to Ahmet, who might mobilise Aishe to extract some kind of explanation from his friend. But the stratagem seemed undignified, and in the end he decided not to speak to anyone, not even about his adventure at the roadblock.
Dimitri was living like a robot. Every day at a quarter past seven the
