“Well I’m glad all three of us made it out alive.” I smile joining his little joke that his car was really alive, but I soon had another thought in my mind. “We aren’t really going back to your house are we?” I ask as we begin to drive down the lane away from the chaos, where a smirk soon fills his lips.
“Not when our investigation has just found it’s hottest lead.” He smiles thinking what I had been since talking to my mother.
Chapter 31
Run-Ins
At first, I didn’t know what Jackson meant by hottest lead. In my mind, what my mother said about their best lead being taken back was true. Derek was the person who would give up all of Mario’s secrets, not only to save himself from a harsher punishment but also, it would enable my mother to take such a dangerous man off the streets. But now
