Night Chills (41 page)

“I guess we aren’t,” she said.

We’re killers, he thought. Children of the 1970s, sons and daughters of the great machine age, survivalists.

All right, he told himself angrily. Enough. We’re killers. But even killers can grab hold of a little happiness. More important, even killers can give a little happiness. And isn’t that the most anyone can do in this life? Give a little happiness?

He thought of Mark: the faked death certificate, the small grave next to Annie’s casket ...

He turned to Jenny again and took her in his arms and let the world shrink until it was no larger than their two bodies.

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