"Thank you," I say.
His eyes blink. I don't like the way they look at me. "Although I could have found a quicker way to find Willem."
"Really? What?"
She hesitates. "His girlfriend."
Thirty five
Ana Lucia Aureliano. That's his name. Willem's girlfriend. She attends an honor university related to the University of Utrecht.
In all the time I've been searching, I never dreamed of going this far. So I didn't let myself imagine actually finding it. And while she had imagined him having many girls, she hadn't thought of him having only one. Which, in retrospect, seems terribly stupid.
It's not like he's here to get back together. It's not like there's a board to go back to. But if I got that close, only to leave, I think I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Ironically, it's Céline's wo
