God of Pain novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Last Round
It snowed on the Charles on Saturday, the nineteenth of December.
At four o'clock the sky over the river was the color of an oyster shell, and the boathouse dock was white from end to end.
I stood at the far rail in my mother's wool coat with a thermos in each hand.
My boots left the only prints on the boards.
At this hour, on this date, I was supposed to be standing in a church in white, with a stranger's hand around mine.
I had spent the morning at the Quill bakery, eating a cinnamon roll on the counter while Nellie pretended not to watch the clock.
"He's going to be late," Nellie had said. "He'll be late, and then he'll show up carrying the wrong thing."
"He's never been late once."
"He's never been in love before."
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