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Then I go into the shower

While I a cascade of ater, I have a strange sensation As if what is happening to ei is dead Noah told randmother is completely devastated Noah is alive I’m a murderer

After o downstairs to the kitchen

‘Where’s Rosita?’ I ask the chef

‘I think she’s in the laundry room,’ he says

I run down to the base some sheets

She smiles broadly ‘You’re up early’

‘No, I’uiltily, then I stopI woke up with a headache, but thank God it’s gone now that I’ve had a shower’

Rosita smiles politely while she waits to hear what I want from her

‘Hey, you know the puppy I gave you the other day, where is it now?’

Her srin

‘Coood that you have cohty Impossible to hen he is around,’ she says, and takes me to the corridor

Just outside the cellar door is a cage with the poor puppy inside it He is sitting upright and staring at us curiously I open the cage door and take him into my arms He is ecstatic to be free and licks ue

‘I’ood little boy,’ I say, kissing his soft ears

Then I take him with me upstairs to Baba’s room

He’ll never take Sergei’s place, but he deserves better than being locked up in a cage in the basement One day I’ll learn to love him

I put hi around like a ei used to

I look at Baba ‘If you don’t ift to us He will be one of the good things that Papa gave to me’

I wait until 200p the servants and everybody in the household that Papa isThen I call Oliver He doesn’t pick up and I ae when he comes on

‘Hello, Tasha,’ he says How I could have thought I could marry him or live with him seems incredible now Iat all

‘Oliver, I’’