Chapter Fifteen
Meg stared blankly at the television screen. Danny had tried to get her to watch a Jackie Chan movie, hoping it would at least distract her for a little while but she could only let the images on the television pass mindlessly while she sighed and ached for Jie.
Mei was curled up on her lap, purring.
Dave, who sat on her other side, had driven around earlier for over two hours, searching for him and had come back unsuccessful. But she’d asked him to pick up a few items of clothing for Jie in the hopes that he would come back and had hardly anything to wear when he did while she and Danny boarded up the broken window cleared away the shattered glass.
Next to Mei on her lap she held Jie’s silk pajama pants, over which she ran her fingertips back and forth. Touching the so
