Find Me, Shere Khan
10 hrs. 25 min.
Hurts when I hit the trigger inside the room, but I quickly turn on the camera. I film the monitor, tuck the phone behind my back. Enter the number, send the photo, and delete everything. And then wait for my child’s father to receive the pictures and come to help. He’ll remember. The tattoo “Mon Сher”. It’s not “my dear.” It’s “my Sherkhan”.
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Arsen wipes his face, speaks in a muffled voice: “All right. You’re coming with me. We’ll wait two weeks and do a blood test. If the child is Tagir’s, you’ll just leave. If mine—” a pause; he swallows, pulling air through his teeth—“you’ll stay living in my house. You’ll have the child and get out. Understood? Lёsha, put her in the car.” “Yes, one more thing. She has a tattoo on her right shoulder. Remove the tattoo.”
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Arsen wipes his face, speaks in a muffled voice: “All right. You’re coming with me. We’ll wait two weeks and do a blood test. If the child is Tagir’s, you’ll just leave. If mine—” a pause; he swallows, pulling air through his teeth—“you’ll stay living in my house. You’ll have the child and get out. Understood? Lёsha, put her in the car.” “Yes, one more thing. She has a tattoo on her right shoulder. Remove the tattoo.”
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