Return of the Reaper novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Grave
The cemetery gate stood open at ten past five on Wednesday morning, and nobody was there to close it.
Noelle stopped the Buick on the gravel and turned off the headlights.
Frost lay on the grass in long gray sheets.
"Which section?" she asked.
"The far side, under the maple."
"Do you want me to come?"
"No."
"Then I'll wait here," she said. "At the gate. As long as it takes."
He got out without looking at her.
If he had looked, he would have said something he couldn't take back.
The path was a quarter mile of wet leaves and old names.
He walked it with his hands in his jacket pockets, and the stitches in his side pulled at every step.
Anna's stone was small and gray.
ANNA ROARK, it said. WIFE. MOTHER.
Lila had picked the line about the mother herself, pointing at the sample book with a sticky finger.
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