When Patrick was a boy, he and his brothers had stolen flares and lit them all at once. The gunpowder combusted into a million bolts of hot light. He saw it all again in Nina Harrow’s eyes when he told her he loved her. “There might be things I can’t tell you,” he said. “There might be secrets. But I’ll never lie to you, Nina. And I promise I’ll love you as well as I can.”
