Chapter 35

Four Hours, Three Telephones

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It took Emir Kaya four hours to find out who had her brother, and he did it in a room at the back of the house in Bebek with three telephones and no raised voices, and Zara sat in the corner of that room for all four hours and watched.

That was the part she had insisted on. He had said no twice. She had said, "Then I go to the police, and we can both see how that goes," and he had looked at her for a long moment and then said, "Sit there, don't speak, and if I ask you to leave the room you leave it," and she had.