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CHAPTER 36

IT ALMOST SEEMED to Michael that he could kill that woh her back with his eyes

Bam Bam

He was keeping her in sight, walking at a co to wonder where her trek would end, where she’d hunker down for the night, when she picked up her pace and aardly trotted across Clay just before the light turned red

Damn it Goddamnit

He was stranded on the sidewalk as traffic swept along between himself and her The sidewalk across the street was opaque with abeneath their umbrellas

And then he lost sight of her

He was sure that he could catch up with her—if he could still see her

Michael wiped rainwater away froht not be this close again anytime soon

Kearny was one way, but he looked right and left, his usual overabundance of caution, then dashed off the curb into the street, shooting the gap between two vehicles He narrowlyclipped by a red sports car, whose driver leaned on the horn, letting hi the far around it

But the risk had paid off He was on the opposite curb unharmed

But where was she?

He jogged ahead, cutting between couples, turning right onto Geary, weaving around a boisterous gang of drunkards leaving Hawthorne, a club tee with customers

And then there was a clearing in the field of u and saw her leaning against the 77 Geary building, adjusting the hood of her plastic poncho, setting her bags down at her feet

A raduation day She hadn’t shown up When he went to dinner with a few friends, there she was—rooting through the trash outside He was humiliated