He thought, again, about leaving this godforsaken South Carolina, better yet, the whole blasted country. But Douglas had promised his father-in-law, Nat, so many years ago, that he’d stay in Charleston to oversee Henderson Shipping, make it his own, after the man’s death. He imagined too that the spirits of Sarah and Cherish still hovered somewhere over Charleston. If he left, he would feel as though he had left them behind. No, like it or not, Douglas was bonded to South Carolina.
Sometimes we are put in a place or circumstance for reasons we can't fathom.
