Wreck the Halls
“Wade held my head, wiped my mouth with clean snow, listened to me rage until I was only weeping with simple sorrow.And then I couldn't even do that anymore. My eyes felt like hot stones, matching the larger one beating painfully in the center of my chest. Across the dark bay, the blur of lights on Campobello condensed into bright sharp points.Wade held his hand out. After a moment I took it and stood up. Suddenly I remembered Monday, looked around in fright. “Where is she?”“I put her in the tru...ck. Come on, now. You're soaked through.”“So what?” I asked bitterly, wanting to hurt someone.But he only drew me against him, preventing me from sinking back down into the snow and just sitting there.Sitting until I froze.“I called George. Ellie's going over to Clarissa's,” he said as we drove back through town.The Christmas lights were all still on in the shop windows, full of fake cheer: reindeer with hard, sharp hooves poised ready to batter and smash, Santas with sly, evil grins on their garish plastic faces.“Right,”MoreLess
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