Chapter 8Sam
After their departure, I take advantage of my aloneness to have a look around. The cottage is cozy although the decoration is stripped to the least. Okay, it is inexistent. The undeniable work of a hardened bachelor. But everything is clean and functional, that’s the main thing. I recall, with a smile on my face, Nate’s last words, “I can cook you something if you want.” My heart blacker and harder than the deepest night mellows at this memory. I can still see Sean grabbing him by the skin of the neck to get him out. It looked like it was painful for him to be away from me.
And his puppy dog look when I refused to let him spend the night on my porch to make sure my first night would go well in my surroundings. He was so touching that I almost gave in. My sister realized this
