“Don’t you dare give him more money to gamble, you hear?
“If you do, go to his family. If you dare do it once again or tell Long to do the same, you are not my daughter anymore!”
The last shout of father’s anger, the highest note of his furious voice went like a sudden whistle from a train climbing a steeply terraced valley along with a fast ascent of steam. The phone was hung up abruptly. Half deafened, I was still trying to say something. But I failed, I simply failed.