Chapter 15
Cherry hardly closed her eyes all night. Her thoughts kept on wandering back to Merlon. Over and again she had imagined a whole load of different scenarios that would have happened if she had not run away from him or if she had at least reacted differently after Merlon had taken her to Amarantus. She could not overcome her feelings of guilt and her pain. At some time around five o’clock in the morning she had given up and had got up to sit in the kitchen and drink coffee. Now, five coffees and two hours later she was still sitting at the table with the red wax tablecloth, staring into space, when the door suddenly opened.
Her mouth opened to utter a scream that remained frozen on her silent lips. With a mixture of disbelief and horror she stared at the man who came into the ki
