His First Love, My Last Goodbye novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Rockport, Last Time
Headlights swung across the ceiling of room six at ten past eleven.
Esme was awake.
She went to the window in her socks.
A small dark car had stopped crookedly at the foot of the hill, with its engine running.
A tall woman got out of it and stood looking up at the house.
She wore a camel coat, and she carried a violin case in one hand and a paper bag in the other.
Esme put on the green cardigan.
She went down the hall past room four, where a lamp burned all night.
In the kitchen the night nurse was already filling the kettle.
"Two cups, please," Esme said. "I know who it is."
She carried them out on a tray.
The porch was cold and smelled of wet leaves.
The Keeper sat awake in his chair under the plaid blanket, with the cards laid out in front of him.
He raised one hand in greeting and did not look up from the board.
Clarissa climbed the steps slowly.
Up close, her lipstick was gone, and her mascara had run into the lines beside her eyes.
She looked thirty-two.
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