C36: Waley's Disappearance

“Hart, can we talk?”

They had just had a sumptuous dinner cooked by Sierra. Hart found that Myra’s mental condition was a lot better than the night before. He glanced at her soft eyes, pondering if everything could return to how it was before.

If only he could hit the reboot button on the computer and they could return to those times in Bali, where it was just the two of them….

No Jake. No Waley. Just the two of them, running….

He had to do what he could to forget about Waley. No matter what happened between them, he had promised Myra first. His late mother had often taught him Chinese idioms, and one was, ‘a man’s word is equivalent to great treasure’. This was an idiom that existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and his mother had hoped any promise from him would be absolute.

What was between Waley and he had to be just an obsession. If she didn’t resemble Milla, then maybe he wou