CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE
His voice was low, certain.
I looked at him.
"How do you know?"
"If they wanted us hurt we'd already be hurt, they've had three opportunities tonight and they haven't taken any of them."
"They ran us off the road."
"They herded us, that's different."
There it was again, that word, herded, the same pattern, every chase tonight ending not in capture but in arrival, every pursuit depositing us somewhere specific, and I thought about that, turned it over carefully while the man outside held the photograph steady against the glass like he had all the time in the world.