#Chapter 124: Deceptive Beauty

We headed back down through the building to the parking garage, and Ed loaded us into a small blue car. Since I didn’t know him at all, I let Wendy sit up front with him and took the back with Theo. I kind of liked riding along with everybody on these jobs because it gave me a chance to see all the different areas in Packhaven. Today, we went in the opposite direction to what we had for the municipal park opening. And within fifteen minutes, we were leaving the city behind us. The steel and glass of Packhaven’s downtown dropped away, and we entered well-kept, green suburban neighborhoods. Intermixed with these were small mom-and-pop shops: cafes, boutiques, hardware stores, and all of the other essential places that made living in the suburbs comfortable. The homes were upscale, and the grounds were meticulously manicured. I could tell just by driving through them that there was definite truth to the story about Southhaven. We went through these for quite a while, and I didn’t see a