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, the man merideth wanted me to enlist as an off the record private investigator was my closet friend of many years . a boulde police detective named sam purdy . our friendship had started in the months after my amrriage to merideth had ened , so he wasn't part of the divided spoils of the relationship .
that also meant that to get sam's help . merideth needed mine .
one of the many things merideth did not know about my friend ship with sam was that he and oi had a recently minted confidence that was exerting gravity on our relationship in a way that was anything subtle . from the moment that sam shared what happened the night he had confronted a woman who was threatening our children the previous spring , we knew we were bound tgethetr by he woman 's fate .
our initial instinct was to creat some distance . i stayed away from him to protect him from any stain of associasion with me . he stayed away from me to protect me from being darkkened by the shadow of what he had done for us .
the ions had their charge , resistance , not attraction .
i hadn't spoken with sam in more than three months . the last time we'd been together had been at adrienne ' graveside service at green mountain in boulder .i'd d been at jonas's side that day . sam had arrived late and hovered at the periphery of the gathering . at the end of the service i gripped one of jonas's hands as he used the other to toss a fistful of colorado clay onto his mother's coffin .by
, the man merideth wanted me to enlist as an off the record private investigator was my closet friend of many years . a boulde police detective named sam purdy . our friendship had started in the months after my amrriage to merideth had ened , so he wasn't part of the divided spoils of the relationship .
that also meant that to get sam's help . merideth needed mine .
one of the many things merideth did not know about my friend ship with sam was that he and oi had a recently minted confidence that was exerting gravity on our relationship in a way that was anything subtle . from the moment that sam shared what happened the night he had confronted a woman who was threatening our children the previous spring , we knew we were bound tgethetr by he woman 's fate .
our initial instinct was to creat some distance . i stayed away from him to protect him from any stain of associasion with me . he stayed away from me to protect me from being darkkened by the shadow of what he had done for us .
the ions had their charge , resistance , not attraction .
i hadn't spoken with sam in more than three months . the last time we'd been together had been at adrienne ' graveside service at green mountain in boulder .i'd d been at jonas's side that day . sam had arrived late and hovered at the periphery of the gathering . at the end of the service i gripped one of jonas's hands as he used the other to toss a fistful of colorado clay onto his mother's coffin .by
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