“ ‘Yes …’ I whispered. ‘Yes.…’ “ ‘As much as I hated him, with him we were … complete.’ She looked at me, her eyelids quivering, as if the slight rise in her voice had disturbed her even as it had disturbed me. “ ‘No, only you were complete …’ I said to her. ‘Because there were two of us, one on either side of you, from the beginning.’
