Charlie said, “I flew out of town to help mom find a reference and now I am coming back to New York and has mom contacted you in the past two days?”
“I got in touch.” Claire sighed and said, “Husband, I was just about to call you to tell you about it. Mom called me just ten minutes ago. You know on the phone. Do you know what she said to me?”
Charlie, already guessed, but still pretended to be curious and asked “What did Mom say?”
Claire said helplessly “She said that she is doing very well in prison now. She wanted to call you, but your phone never got through, so she called me and asked me to tell you that she is not in a hurry to come out right now, so don’t get her out of there too soon… What else can I say, I thought as long as she can make it back to China with us that would have been the best. If it doesn’t work, she can come back by herself after she is released from prison…”
She asked nervously “Husband, don’t you think she is too strange? What could she be doing in prison and say that she doesn’t want to come out too soon… …”
Charlie sneered and thought to himself “My silly wife, you have to know that your mother is the ghost of Bedford Hill now, I guess you can understand why she doesn’t want to come out…”
But he didn’t say much, just comforted “Wife, I guess mom didn’t want us to worry, so she said that.”
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