Chapter twenty
CONFRONTATION
Jesse was standing inside Derek’s garage, hunched over a small yellow second-hand car. He was removing window glass, slicing the rubber seal with a knife. He wiped his brow and stood upright while Derek sanded the car’s paint on the other side.
When Jesse had removed all the glass, he took out his clipboard and pen and wrote a list of parts they needed to restore the car. He remembered working with his father on cars, but it had stopped when he was thirteen years old, which was the time his older sister had died. He missed those bonding sessions with his father, but he was slowly coming around to engaging in his old interests again. It no doubt had to do with the fact that, over a year ago, his sister’s killer had finally been caught. His parents got their s
