The Playboy Hid His Roommate, So the Whole Quad Watched Him Beg novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Ten Years
Gloucester in December smelled of diesel, cold salt and fresh-cut cedar, and Wilder loved it immediately.
The Haverford yard sat on the harbor behind a gray shingled office, with a slip, a crane and a long shed where the hulls stood in frames.
Dexter had bought a dog.
It was a huge, shaggy, black thing that lay across the office doorway and refused to move for anyone but Wilder.
"It likes you," Dexter said, gruffly.
"It likes my sandwich," Wilder said.
"That too."
Wilder spent the first morning on a stool in the shed, learning how to drive caulking into the seam of a plank.
Dexter showed him once and then stood back.
"Hit it like you mean it," he said.
Wilder did.
He liked how it felt, the dull, solid thud through the mallet and into his wrist.
It was a sound he could feel in his bones, and that made it safe.
Dash sat on a sawhorse with a mug of coffee, watching him work, with his face turned so that Wilder could always see his mouth.
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