BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION
He thought about the garage, about three years of believing his own bad decisions had built the hole he'd fallen into, and felt something shift uncomfortably in his chest at the idea that the hole itself might have been dug for him, by someone else's hands entirely, long before he'd ever picked up the shovel.
He paid for the coffee neither of them had drunk, left the diner into a night gone colder than it had been an hour ago, and drove home slowly, replaying Marco's voice, ask her about a girl named Sofia, watch Nico's face when she does, and wondered, all the way back, whether tomorrow was going to be the day his sister's whole careful, patient life finally came apart at every seam at once