Chapter 44
“I went to the location of the house my father had been renting, and it’s all changed,” Michael said to Jianjun when he returned to the Four Seasons. "It’s as if the house I’d been in was a mirage. But now he’s gone and I have no idea where. I tried to talk to Irina, but she won’t tell me anything I don’t already know and everything else she says is a lie. I’m afraid I’ve been chasing a fantasy. It’s time I give up and concentrate on what’s real. I need to get Bethany away from that dig and, most of all, to find Ceinwen. I’ve been an i***t and I need her to forgive me.”
“That’s probably for the best, boss,” Jianjun admitted.
“At least having seen Irina helped me to put aside the idealistic fantasies of my youth. I still have a lot of questions about what happened when we were
