LEXIE
NEXT MORNING
"Where's Crow?" I asked, catching Mia mid-wipe of the same table she'd cleaned twice already.
"Garage," she said. "Been there all morning, something about a part he's waiting on."
I finished my shift break and decided to go find him, mostly because Mr. Harlan had sent me home an hour early again and I had nowhere better to be. The garage door was open when I got there, but Crow wasn't at his usual spot beside the bike.
"Crow?"
"Back here," his voice called from somewhere deeper inside.
I walked past the main workbench and found him standing outside a door at the rear of the building, one I'd never noticed before.
It was closed, and he was knocking on it with the patience of someone who'd done this exact thing many times. "What's back there?" I asked.
"Brick's
