She arrived at the shop by taxi at midday. Lek left Anne-Anne in charge and went with the car to their house so that it would be easier to carry the luggage in and Soom had quite a lot of it.
“A lot of this stuff was already packed to take to the new house, so when Mike left this morning, I ordered a taxi and here I am.”
“Does Mike know where you are, or even that you have left?”
“No,” she began to cry, “at least not from me, but I’m sure that one of his mother’s spies, Fah or the nanny, has told her by now and she will have told him. I switched my phone off in the taxi, I just don’t want to listen to them any more…” The sobbing became pitiful. “Oh, Mum, you don’t know what it was like. One or other of the three of them was on at me all day long… ‘Look what we’ve done for you’, ‘Look wh
