did you tell them?”
She batted away his hand. “I didn’t tell them anything!”
“You’re lying.”
“You think I’m stupid? You think I’d tell them I have friends in the CIA?”
He released her. As she sat up, the silky heat of her breast brushed against his arm. So the old whore still slept naked, he thought with an automatic stirring of desire.
She rose from the bed and pulled on a robe.
“Don’t turn on the lights,” he said.
“There was a man outside—a police agent. What did you do with him?”
“I took care of him.”
“And the body?”
“In the ditch out back.”
“Oh, nice, Siang. Very nice. Now they’ll blame me for that, too.” She struck a match and lit a cigarette. By the flame’s brief glow, he could see her face framed by a tangle of black hair. In the semidarkness she still looked tempting, young and soft and succulent.
The match went out. He asked, “What happened at the police station?”
She let out a slow breath. The smell of exhaled smoke filled the darkness. “They asked about my cousin. They say he’s dead. Is that true?”
“What do they know about me?”
“Is Winn really dead?”
Siang paused. “It couldn’t be helped.”
Chantal laughed. Softly at first, then with wild abandon. “She did that, did she? The American bitch? You cannot finish off even a woman? Oh, Siang, you must be slipping!”
He felt like hitting her, but he controlled the urge. Chantal was right. He must be slipping.
She began to pace the room, her movements as sure as a cat’s in the darkness. “The police are interested. Very interested. And I saw others there—Party members, I think—watching the interrogation. What have you gotten me into, Siang?”
He shrugged. “Give me a cigarette.”
She whirled on him in rage. “Get your own cigarettes! You think I have money to waste on you?”
“You’ll get the money. All you want.”
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