come back at

“Because they’d come back at us a hundred times worse.”

I started to read it, but only got as far as “Lady Lazarus,” five poems in — to the line about meaning to “last it out and not come back at all” — before the connection to Heather felt too painfully literal.

“Not sure why someone would just steal that, and not take any of our valuables. She told me it wasn’t safe, though. At the time I thought she just meant because someone had been in our house, and they could come back at any time, you know? It made sense. So she told me to get up, that we were leaving. Oh, and she handed me a note with emergency numbers on it and told me to call them if anything happened.”

A gambler, con man and old rake, Elmore has come back at the end of his life to marry the woman he’s never been able to shake and to reveal to King something about the past Ruby would prefer to keep buried.

Harry Brook will come back at some stage, so Bairstow could again be competing with Ben Foakes for one place in the side.