(Adrian)
I looked at Henry's voice coming through Sebastian's phone as if I could somehow see the man on the other end. My mother had been in the apartment while our father waited outside. She might have seen the car and believed Alexander had finally come to find her. Then he left without ever coming inside.
"Are you certain it was a woman?"
Henry answered after a moment.
"Yes."
Sebastian moved the phone closer.
"Did you see her face?"
Henry took a moment before answering.
"Not clearly."
I picked up an old photograph of my mother from the table.
"Did she stay at the window?"
Henry answered me through the phone.
"Until we drove away."
I couldn't stop thinking about what that must have looked like from her side. Alexander arrived after she'd tried reaching him three times, but
