That sound filled the building.

My father would have loved it.

PART 38 — WHAT THE SHOP REALLY MEANT

For years, I believed protecting the shop meant protecting my father’s memory.

Eventually I understood something deeper.

My father did not leave me brick walls because brick was sacred.

He left me leverage.

Security.

A place nobody could take from me easily.

He had spent his entire adult life working with his hands so that his daughter would have something solid.