was so stupid.”
“He said if you can see where something belongs, you’ll always put it back.”
Cullen took the hammer down off the pegboard.
His shoulders started to shake.
I didn’t go to him. Not yet. Some things a person has to do on his own.
It took us four hours to get the shutters up.
The wind was already picking up. Rain came in sideways off the ocean in cold, stinging sheets. Cullen climbed the ladder and I held it steady, the way I’d held it for Nile
