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
It was so funny to think back at how mean she’d been to him, when now it was like she couldn’t even remember her life without him. After all, what were the odds that she would meet her soul mate so early in her life, when so many other people had to wait so long, until they were like thirty or whatever? And then, when he told her he was going to be in Duluth, which was only three hours away, to shoot that Discovery Channel special, it was like the planets had aligned and given them an opportunity to be together. London was not going to waste it, no matter what she had to do to get there.
TEN
After dinner, Finn gets up from the table and goes to the living room. Her father is watching the baseball game. The Jays, of course. Finn had been worried about seeing her father – seeing the ways in which he had grown smaller, weaker – but if anything he seems healthier, more robust. Aside from a little more grey in his dark brown hair, it’s like he hasn’t aged at all. Finn hopes he isn’t disappointed in the way she looks. Suddenly she wishes she had taken better care of herself – visited the dentist more often, gone to the gym. She wants him to know she can take care of herself. She wants him to know that she is doing all right.
Walter smiles at her as she sits down, pats her hand. “I’m happy you’re here, Serafina.” Her father is the only one who still calls her Serafina, the only one who can say it in a way that makes her feel like he’s actually talking to her and not someone else.
“Me, too,” says Finn. In the kitchen she can hear Katriina and Nicki doing the dishes. She knows that she should go in there and help, but she can’t bring herself to face them – Nicki with her snide remarks, Katriina with her happy baby glow. It makes Finn ill just thinking about it.
Walter leans forward in his seat to reach for a brownie on the coffee table. “You can come out on the coffee cruise with me tomorrow morning, if you’d like,” he says before taking a bite. Finn cringes involuntarily. Every Sunday morning from April until November, Walter runs a tour of the Thunder Bay harbour, where he serves coffee and pastries from Kahvila. If he’s out of town, one of his employees will run it, but when he’s home he never misses it. When Finn was a teenager her parents used the tour as punishment: come home too late on a Saturday night and you had to work the coffee cruise on Sunday morning. Finn hopes that her father isn’t trying to punish her for something now.