"Hello." "Buongiorno, Mamma, are you awake?" "Sort of. Wow, you sound happy." Then I remembered. "Oh my God! You'll never guess—wait—did you talk to Cruz?" "No, why? What happened?" "Kyle, it's him, the charlatan on Ponte Vecchio. Do you remember when I came back from Italy and had the hand-drawn...
There had to be some explanation for her behavior, for the pain she was causing and for the dead bodies dogging her footsteps. I told Larry about Flash, the special gift from Ruby. What happened to that Ruby? Who changed? Ruby or me? Maybe neither. Maybe for the first time I did see the real Ruby...