Chapters (46)
- Cover
- Other Titles
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Friday
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- Saturday
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- Sunday
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- Monday
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
- THIRTY-TWO
- THIRTY-THREE
- THIRTY-FOUR
- THIRTY-FIVE
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Did you know that sharks will grieve when they lose a member of their family?” London says. “Adam Pelley says that if people just got to know these things, they wouldn’t want to hunt them anymore.”
“Who’s Adam Pelley?” asks Finn.
London glares at her with what she can only assume is thousands of years of evolutionary hatred passed down from her teenaged girl ancestors. Then, summoning all the power of her undeveloped frontal cortex, she screams, punches Finn in the shoulder, and runs out of the room.
Finn knows she should follow her and apologize, but she’s just so tired. Instead, she closes her eyes and crosses her arms over her chest, sinking into the bed, imagining herself being surrounded by sharks as she drifts off to sleep.
SIX
Saturday morning, Katriina takes Tommy and Petey over to Victor Street early to help Nicki get breakfast ready for the family. It’s not that Katriina particularly likes Nicki, but they are thrown together in that way that family often is, and she has learned to love her. And she doesn’t ever worry about Shawn’s relationship with Nicki. Nicki and Shawn are close, but they don’t have that same bond that he and Finn do – no inside jokes, no shared favourite books, no secret phone conversations while Katriina is in the shower. Or maybe it’s just that there’s nothing mysterious about Nicki. Either way, with Finn on her way to Thunder Bay, Nicki is clearly on edge – considering what happened the last time the twins saw each other, Katriina can’t blame her – so Katriina tries to remain cheery as she stirs scrambled eggs for Ross and flips pancakes for everyone else.
“This is your husband’s fault, you know,” Nicki says. “He was the one who told her in the first place.” Nicki has been ranting about Finn for the better part of an hour, and Katriina has been trying to pay attention, she has. The same way she tried to pay attention to her sister the night before when she had gone to pick up the kids, Hanna telling her about the art exhibit she had seen on the weekend, the new pub opening up on the waterfront; the same way she tried to pay attention to Shawn when he came home from the restaurant and told her about the young cook he was going to have to fire. But it’s like watching television on mute – their mouths are moving, but nothing is coming out. So she nods her head and makes the appropriate noises because this is what she has learned to do.
“Katriina?” says Nicki.