He Sacrificed Our Son, But Won't Let Me Go novel · Chapter 12 of 32
Chapter 12: The Swap
The church in Revere had a gravel lot behind it, and a statue of the Virgin with one chipped hand.
They got there at ten to noon on Thursday.
Cormac stayed in the truck at the gate with a tire iron across his knees and the engine running.
"If you wave," he said through the window, "I come in. If you don't wave and you don't come out, I come in louder."
"Understood," Maura said.
Vincent walked beside her with both hands bare of gauze for the first time.
The skin of his palms was pink and tight and shining, new and raw.
He had carried no weapon.
She had told him not to, and had been surprised when he agreed.
A grey sedan sat at the far end of the lot with its engine off.
The old man stood beside it in his grey coat, leaning on a black cane, with two men a pace behind him.
He looked smaller in daylight.
He was seventy-four, with white hair cut short and a lined, yellow face.
His eyes did not blink often.
"Mrs. Saraceno," he said, and bowed his head a quarter inch.
"Donnelly."
"As you like." He studied her with an air of mild interest. "I thought you would be taller. A woman who takes a Don's son to a divorce lawyer ought to be taller."
"Where is my son?"
"Eating lunch."
"I want to see him."
"You will, if we agree." The old man lifted his cane and pointed it at the church. "Walk with me."
"I'll stand here," Vincent said.
"You will stand where I tell you, because you are in my debt and I am being polite." The old man's voice did not change. "Sit, both of you."
There was a bench beside the Virgin.
Maura sat.
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