ill call home quickly to check with my parents . she swallowed , felt all the hollow horror of being shoved out a door into darkness . `` you 're right , '' she said and pulled on the coat he offered to her . in the front seat of his car , no less . he brushed his lips over the chilled skin of her cheek to the corner of her mouth . yes , he was in pain , but it had been a slap in the face he sorely needed . we can still catch up with them . 