The Door at Midnight
Two years back, when Shirley came home from abroad, she gave a Patek Philippe watch to Matthew.
Matthew was over the moon, wearing it all the time, even to bed, unless he had to take it off for something big like surgery.
However, I just could not figure out who this well-off, polished man was.
He caught on to my puzzled look, but instead of getting upset, he just smiled.
"I'm Edwin."
I froze.
Edwin Gordon? How could that be?
I remembered Edwin always had those super thick glasses, like the bottom of a beer bottle.
He was the kid who did not have much, always eating just bread with margarine, skinny as a stick.
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