He could have come back later, after the event, to look for Gabe. Now that he knows where he probably works. No, it makes absolute sense to me that he walks towards Gabe at the end of this chapter (But he does! had better not be a spoiler, btw!). He's not leaving the site of the bombing, and just abandoning everything, but he has just seen someone who's absolutely tied up with a major trauma in his life. I don't think it's a conscious decision on Doyle's part at all, and I don't blame him either - if I suddenly saw someone I'd loved and lost years ago, and not been able to find since, then I'd probably drop everything to follow them too! And to be fair, he doesn't know that Gabe works at the nearby church, he could just have been passing when the bomb went off, he could have been visiting it, etc.
That's a very stupid thing to do at that moment! Why?! Why is it "stupid"?
We've got the next novel-read-along story lined up, but we can put Maclean on the list for another time! *g*
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Date: 2019-04-28 01:25 pm (UTC)No, it makes absolute sense to me that he walks towards Gabe at the end of this chapter (But he does! had better not be a spoiler, btw!). He's not leaving the site of the bombing, and just abandoning everything, but he has just seen someone who's absolutely tied up with a major trauma in his life. I don't think it's a conscious decision on Doyle's part at all, and I don't blame him either - if I suddenly saw someone I'd loved and lost years ago, and not been able to find since, then I'd probably drop everything to follow them too! And to be fair, he doesn't know that Gabe works at the nearby church, he could just have been passing when the bomb went off, he could have been visiting it, etc.
That's a very stupid thing to do at that moment!
Why?! Why is it "stupid"?
We've got the next novel-read-along story lined up, but we can put Maclean on the list for another time! *g*