Your Love Came Late, I Chose Another novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Six Months Later
I stood on the sidewalk in the broken glass and watched the video four times.
Darren winding up.
Darren looking straight into my camera afterward and grinning, chipped tooth and all, like he wanted me to see.
"He knew it was there," Bree said. "He waved."
"He's never been caught for anything in his life," Ronan said. "He doesn't think he can be."
I called the police from the curb.
Two officers came and took the footage.
One of them looked at the name I gave him and sighed.
"Kearney," he said. "Of the coffee Kearneys?"
"The other one," I said.
We boarded up the hole at nine that night.
At five the next morning, I opened anyway.
I made a sign out of a pizza box and taped it to the plywood.
OPEN. WINDOW TAKING A PERSONAL DAY.
By seven-thirty there was a line down King Street longer than opening day.
People from the festival, and the woman in the sun visor with her daughter from Atlanta.
At eight-fifteen, Darren's silver car pulled up across the street.
He leaned on the hood with a coffee, admiring my plywood.
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