The final sentence.

'Game on, Dunn.'

The dawn blooming out of the dark.

He was his mother’s son, after all.

And there in Mooki’s kitchen, my best friends, my boyfriend and I worked together late into the night, and there was no better feeling in the world.

And so, at long last, I push off the wall and step out of the shadows and into the light.

'And I want to see what it will become in the darkness.'

Then she said: 'I've never even seen a movie before, but that does sound exciting.'

It felt nice to belong again.

Because if the last year had taught me anything, it was that the best things in life tended to happen when you least expected them.

There were a lot of names on her list, and Quinn wanted to be out of Maryland before dusk.

It would be a long journey back home.

But he wasn't so much anymore; not now that he had his siblings back.

And it might not be perfect, but it's good.

And this is where it ends.

Life is in session.

'I love you more,' he says.

Rawlins cocked his elbow playfully, and Ellsbeth slipped her arm into his and leaned into him with unmistakable warmth and the two walked off, vanishing together into the night.