He Waited for Fifteen Years novel · Chapter 41 of 48
Chapter 41: The Light
He walked away from me down the long hallway, his heels loud on the stone.
Halfway to the rope he took a white handkerchief out of his breast pocket.
By the time he reached the cameras, he was touching it to the corners of his eyes.
"I asked her to forgive me," he told them. "She isn't ready. I understand that. I'll keep asking."
The reporters wrote it down.
Nicholas crossed the ten feet from the window and sat on the bench where Bryant had been.
Then he moved six inches over, off the warm part of the wood.
"Somebody had to," he said quietly. "He said it like a man explaining why he was late for dinner."
"He wants me to tell a jury about a birthday I haven't had yet," I said. "So they can watch me do it."
"He'd enjoy that."
The baby moved.
She had started that week, small flicks low down.
I put my hand over the place and kept it there.
"He didn't learn that under a car in 2033," Nicholas said. "A man who lies on his back and does it himself has done it before."
"He didn't do it last September. She did."
"He told her not to do it here."
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