The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda

Author:Tetsuya Honda
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After a shower, Reiko had a light dinner prepared by Tamaki. She was all apologies as she chopped the vegetables at a painfully slow pace. “I’m sorry about what I said. I crossed the line.” Reiko wasn’t so sure she deserved an apology. In the end they ate their rice and vegetables in silence, then went up to their rooms.

Reiko went straight to bed. She wasn’t in the mood to sleep, but she didn’t feel like doing anything else. She was shattered, exhausted. She lay down, switched off the bedside light, and closed her eyes.

So much of what Tamaki said came as a shock to her. They were sisters. They had known each other forever. Reiko had known that Tamaki was jealous of her. She had noticed how much more lively Tamaki became after the incident. She had sensed it was about something more than showing sympathy to her traumatized sister, but she had never expected Tamaki to be so forthright about how she really felt. It was her own selfishness that had driven her sister to it, though. She had no right to fight back. None whatsoever.

The biggest shock was the discovery that her mother was only pressuring her to find a husband because she blamed herself for what had happened that day. It was when the dates didn’t pan out and her sister—their auntie—started giving her a hard time that she’d been carted off to the hospital.

Reiko had to admit that she wasn’t the only person to have suffered. Still, she’d suffered more than anyone else. No one could deny that. She had worked hard to find a way of living life that made sense to her, and she wanted the rest of her family to respect the choices she had made. So maybe what made her happy was different than other women. She had joined the police, become a detective, made lieutenant in Homicide. And because of that, she felt fully and completely alive. Was it selfish of her to want them to try to understand that? Did she need to painstakingly spell out all the whys and wherefores before they would accept the life choices she had made?

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