I walked for a while, down the beach, away from Hensley house and Shenka and the truth that hurt so much the only thing I could do was move my body so it wouldn't fall to pieces around me.

A pair of children shrieked happily as they ran through the surf, mothers watching from their towels close by. A man and his dog jogged at the shoreline, a pair of young men tossing a Frisbee in the heat of the sun, slim, muscular bodies golden ...