Chapter 26

 It was almost an hour before we made it back to our hotel room. I fell onto one of the two queen sized beds that dominated the room. Mei-Lien wet a cloth and wiped some blood from the gash on my bruised temple while Shen and Dao-Ming gathered our things.

Shen and I had returned to suitcases filled with clothes and necessities. This wasn’t the case for the women.

“See if you can get these to stay on,” Shen said as he offered a pair of his sandals to Dao-Ming. “They will not let you on an airplane barefoot.” He looked at the robe she was wearing and added, “I better give you some clothes too.”

Dao-Ming took the sandals and slipped them on. They were several sizes too big. Shen handed her a shirt and pants and she giggled as she put them on. She stood in front of the mirror; first smiling at the thought of wearing Shen’s clothes and then knitting her brows together as she realized how precarious everything was h