The Lies Behind Her Marriage novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Two A.M.
The garage on Lagrange Street had one yellow bulb burning in a window, and a roll-up door open a foot at the bottom.
It was two in the morning.
I ducked under the door with my coat over my pajamas and a thermos in my fist.
The air inside smelled like oil and cold metal.
A truck stood in the middle of the floor with its hood up.
It was a squat white refrigerated box truck, older than my students, with the paint bubbled along one door.
KEANE HAULAGE ran across the side in red letters that had faded to pink.
Nolan's legs stuck out from under it.
A radio on the workbench played a call-in show about trucks, very low.
"Don't touch the jack," he said, from beneath the frame.
"I'm not."
"I heard the thermos."
"It's coffee."
"Then you can touch the jack."
He rolled out on a creeper.
He wore gray coveralls open to the waist over a T-shirt, and grease ran up both forearms to the elbow.
There was a black smear across his cheek.
He looked at me, and the wrench in his hand went still.
"You heard about the board," I said.
"My mother called me nine times."
"You didn't answer."
"I was afraid it would go badly, and I wouldn't be able to stand in the room."
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