Chapter 4

Lisette had no objections to that because she had gotten on bad terms with her mother and quit her job at the printing business. Her mother had gotten furious when Lisette had claimed her remaining salary, refused to pay her anything and went totally mad when Lisette sued her. Lisette won the case and the enforcement service succeeded in getting her money two weeks before the printing company went bankrupt. The bank had objections but Niclas had fixed her a good lawyer who persuaded the bank to withdraw their claims.

Tommy's visit to my house to celebrate his romance with Lisette lasted only a short, intensive and, at the beginning of it, pleasant time which soon turned into a terrible nightmare for him. After I had found him in my bed and he went away naked from my house in his Volvo, he was caught by the traffic police who had a control for drunk drivers on their way home from parties. Lisette and he had celebrated the happy ending to their love story with a good dinner with my best Rioja wine and Cognac. He was taken, naked, to the police station for a blood sample. One of Lisette's friends told me later that she had heard rumors that he got heavy fines and lost his driver's license for two years. His wife did what she had promised. She came home, dumped him and filed for divorce. Nowadays she works for the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, where she lives together with an Italian colleague whom she met during her UN job in Kosovo.