Chapter 29
Although Michael knew he had not been with Irina, he couldn’t get her out of his head. And he couldn’t take off for the other side of the world without trying to find her.
The next morning, he asked Jianjun to search for Irina Petrescu, or possibly some Anglicized version of the Romanian name, such as Irene Peters. She would be in her mid-thirties. Her mother’s name was Magda Petrescu. The two formerly lived in the vicinity of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Jianjun searched everywhere for Irina, including death records, but came up blank. She seemed to have disappeared off the grid. He did, however, find a Magda Petrescu, age sixty, living in the town of Apex, North Carolina.
“I’m going there. I want to see her before I return to Italy,” Michael said. He didn’t say why, but knowi
