Chapter 32Sono heard the doorbell and was surprised when he didn’t hear his secretary’s voice. Seconds later, he looked up to find Michiko towering over the entryway to his cubicle, her black outfit refusing the glare of the accountancy office lights.
He folded shut the double-entry account book, ground out his cigarette in the overflowing ashtray and said, “Please call before you come.”
“If I needed to call, I wouldn’t come at all,” she said.
His secretary brought the files and set them down on the table in the back cubicle. Michiko took off her sunglasses, pushed back her hair, and pulled out her account books. Sono followed her in to the cubicle.
In the small kitchenette, the secretary started preparing two cups of green tea. The greenish-yellow flicker from a fluorescent light, twi
