I have to live with that.

I will always have to live with that.”

Chapter 12 — Why Now

“Then why now?” I asked, the tears blurring my vision so that Sarah’s pale face swam in front of me.

“After ten years of being too afraid.

Why did you finally come back now?”

She stopped beside a silver sedan at the edge of the drive and looked back at me, and her face was a landscape of pure agonized guilt.

“Because I saw his face on the news last week,” she said.