Chapter 25
The sky was pink and gold and the humidity already unbearable when Andy saw Harry-Rex’s hardware store. There was a city bus stop only a few blocks further down, and that would take him to the Greyhound station. It was almost over. Andy resolutely did not think about the last few weeks, how happy he’d been. How he’d been part of a family. How much he loved—No.
He gritted his teeth. He was not thinking about that. He was thinking about how much his feet hurt. He was thinking about where the hell he was going to go from here. He was thinking about not letting that oncoming jogger run him over. He was thinking about giving up and going back to New York and letting Nick and his father fight over his scraps.
He was thinking…how familiar that jogger looked. Blond and fit and runnin
