My Father Sold Me to His Oldest Enemy to Play House, and the Old Man Bought the Only Witness Against Him novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: Morning Without Orders
Aris's POV
I woke at seven in the cold light.
The stove was dead and the sheet was pushed back on the other side of the cot.
I had slept.
It had been nine years since I slept through a night.
I lay there with my heart going and understood that I had not dreamed once.
Her mother's coat was gone from the chart table.
My shirt was gone from the floor.
I got up, and the knee told me about it, and I dressed and went up the lawn.
My nephew's boat was in its slip.
It rode low and tidy, the lines coiled, the deck washed.
Costa stood on the dock with a rag over his shoulder.
"Morning, Uncle," he said. "You're up early."
"You were out."
"Night fishing," Costa said. "I couldn't sleep. The cold front." He smiled. "You looked like you were sleeping fine."
"I was."
"Good," Costa said. "You needed it."
I looked at the boat for a moment.
There was no tackle on it, no bucket, no rod.
I thought, he has never fished in his life.
Then I thought, he is thirty-eight and he walks the docks at night when he is troubled, as I did at his age.
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