Nothing Left To Save
By the time the car left North Harbor, the sky had finally cleared.
In the rearview mirror, Commission men had pinned Damon down, and the folding knife lay on the road with a small, pale sound.
The wind swallowed it almost immediately. I didn’t ask what would happen to him afterward.
To me, the name Damon Moretti already belonged with the old letters burned to ash, the wedding ring sunk in the harbor, and the ruined dream I had stopped trying to save.
One month later, I bought my first warehouse site in a lake town to the south.