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CHAPTER 29

“The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it…”

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Haldun Kutlu’s wife, Ayla, waited every evening for both her husband and the white cat they called Sultana. Sultana always came last, as she wanted out of the basket as soon as Haldun stepped off the ferry. Ayla had no idea where Sultana spent the next hour. But she would come by for supper, as regular as clockwork.

Ayla worried about Haldun. The newspapers were full of dramatic headlines about this terrorist group or that. And Haldun, as a journalist, was a target. He was also a target as a liberal, Western-leaning intellectual.

And he was all she had.

The door opened. Oh, good. He was home safe.

“Allah korusun,” she whispered, as she did every time Haldun left or came back. “God protect him.”