“But someone is going to answer for every second of this.

And I am going to put my mother and father back in their own beds, in their own house, at their own table, if it is the last thing I do.”

Chapter 7 — The Key Under the Stone

He waited in the darkness until the main lights of the house went out.

And a few minutes past midnight, his father stepped out into the yard, alone.

Manuel looked around nervously, the way a man looks who has learned to be watchful in his own home, and then he crossed to a spot near the shed, and lifted a hollow garden stone, and pulled out from beneath it a small, rusted iron key.