He came over and knelt beside the little bike on the concrete floor.

“I brought it by so you could check the bolt on the right training wheel,” Michael said.

Derek took hold of the metal bracket and gave it a hard yank.

It stayed solid against the frame.

He slid his hand up the steel handlebar and stopped short.

“You told me Noah scraped this on the brick retaining wall at the park,” Derek said.

“That’s what Lena told me when she dropped him off Sunday,” Michael said.