Chapter 41Sara and Birdie were held back at the gate. Ka'imi sniffed her way straight to a thoroughly rusted piece of junk standing in the side yard against the rock wall that separated Maleko's property from Sara's lot. The Thunbergia vines still flowered in a profusion of large blue blooms and flat green leaves that thickly covered a mid-sized antiquated refrigerator mostly hidden among heaps of debris. Maleko had made no effort to control the aggressive vines, not that he did any gardening. The colorful floral blanket hid a multitude of sins. Rust shown on old metal items that stuck out from under the overgrowth. Arms and legs of various sizes, haphazardly thrown chairs and tables and other furniture poked out from underneath. A couple of old doors and a pile of boards lay at the far en
