Use both arms.

He had died saying it.

He had spent one of the last minutes of his life making absolutely certain that a boy he had never met put his life jacket on correctly, and that was my son, that was Mason, entire, in a single shouted sentence.

Chapter 25 — The Last Thing Anyone Saw

Raymond told us the rest.

A larger rescue vessel had reached them not long after, alerted by someone onshore who had seen the squall hit, and the grandson was lifted out, and then Raymond, both of them cold and terrified but alive.

And Lucas — Lucas had held his boat nearby through all of it, circling, steadying, making certain that every last person was out of the water and safely aboard the bigger boat before he finally turned his own craft back toward the distant shore.