Picture
Soo Lin was already gone. She would never allow her food to spoil.
He walked into her bedroom, and caught sight of something on a shelf.
The picture was still in the frame he remembered from home. He half smiled as he picked it up and thought about the game they had been playing when his father took the picture.
He started to pull back the frame. The photograph would remind him of a time before she betrayed him and their new family. But no – she was less than nothing to him now.
At least he could be sure that her flight was unplanned – if she had not intended to return to this apartment, the photograph would be gone with her.
He cocked his head. Someone was climbing the fire escape.
Liang replaced the photograph quietly and scanned the room for cover.