Chapter 33

Finally, Richie was also discharged and I was left alone in the ward.

When I finished reading the novels I had, I discovered that my only entertainment consisted of counting the minutes. Look at the clock, and do calculations. The minutes until the next visit from Hilda or her Uncle Wade, or to meet my children again, for the next walk down the hall, or else it was too early to make another call to Johanna to see how she was doing there in the United States. I couldn’t do more, because there was no television and I was prohibited from making noise, things so that no one inconvenient would discover that a two-meter-tall white humanoid wolf was there. The visits helped keep me from getting in a bad mood, even the unexpected ones. Reading kept me busy, but not for long.

A dark-skinned guy in a pearl gray suit came to see me, looking neat and almost regal. At first, I didn’t understand why that guy was in my room, and I even thought he was on the wrong floor and that we woul