Chapter 9Before Sullivan, nobody intruded on Rafe’s time in the church. The few times people wandered in, he always stopped what he was doing and went home, unwilling to be witnessed in what was for him an incredibly personal act. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust others not to mock him. The people of Chadwick were family, and had been for a very long time. He simply needed to keep this part private. His remembrances sprang from patterns set long before they’d left Miami. In a way, he didn’t think anyone in town could fully understand.
Sullivan was the exception. As it was turning out, Sullivan was an exception in a lot of ways. But Rafe had never felt threatened by Sullivan’s presence, though he suspected he should have been. Having him around felt natural, and after he’d shown up the secon
