Chapter 15: Callie

Nora had never told the full story to anyone but Reyes, and even Reyes had gotten it in pieces over years, not all at once, not the way she found herself telling it to Eli on a gray, wind-still afternoon when the tide window closed early and left them with an unexpected free hour at the cottage she'd been renting, the two of them sitting on the back step with mugs of tea going cold in their hands....