Chapter 41Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1977Cary stood beside his parents' bed, trying to decide which one of them to try to save first.
Neither of them would wake up. He'd tried hard to bring them around, with no success.
And time was running out. The smoke had thickened, and the fire was spreading fast. It had already started to climb the walls upstairs.
Cary had to make a decision, and he had to do it fast.
Whichever parent he chose, he knew he wouldn't have an easy time of it. Carrying Celeste downstairs and outside had been hard enough, and she was much smaller than either Lydia or E.Q.
But Cary wasn't about to wait around for help to get there. As of two minutes ago, when he'd lugged Celeste outside and dropped her in the grass, no firemen or neighbors had been racing up to prov
