“She knows almost everything.”

They walked back toward the cars together.

Vincent realized he no longer thought of the harbor only in terms of assets, freight schedules, and profits.

It was also a place where families waited for people to come home, and where not everyone had been given that chance.

PART 27

The years did not become perfect.

There were days June missed Thomas so sharply she couldn’t look at his photograph.

There were evenings Sophie wept for Elena over something as ordinary as a favorite song.