Electric City by Elizabeth Rosner

Author:Elizabeth Rosner [Rosner, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619024069
Publisher: Counterpoint

MEETING SOPHIE’S BROTHER Simon at the bridge had been more awkward than Henry imagined. He wasn’t used to being looked at with so much mistrust, as though a Van Curler had to prove his own merit to a perfect stranger. But of course if he’d had a younger sister of his own, he would undoubtedly feel the same way toward someone turning up in the dark after an unsupervised overnight to a house by the lake. He hazarded a guess that Simon was evaluating the emotional distance between Martin’s truck and Henry’s MG, but maybe that was just his own wishful thinking.

“Sorry we’re late,” Henry said, pulling Sophie’s paisley bag out of his trunk.

“Nice wheels,” Simon said. “And if you were speeding I don’t want to hear about it.”

Sophie hugged Henry for a long minute before walking over to say goodbye to Martin. Even Bear looked disconsolate about the three of them going their separate ways.

“Thanks for everything,” Sophie called out, waving in all directions. “That doesn’t feel like nearly enough to say.”

Henry and Martin waited inside their own vehicles while Simon’s taillights disappeared uphill toward town. It wasn’t clear to either one of them what was supposed to happen next. Henry considered inviting Martin to grab a milkshake or something at the Castle Diner, something to fend off his inevitable loneliness, but when he tapped his horn as a question, Martin started his engine and pulled away. The Company logo competed with the sliver of moon, same as always. Martin recrossed the bridge toward home.

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