Chapter 13The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation,
of the essential joy that is life.
—Orhan Pamuk
The next few days were both the best and the worst in Theo’s life. Dylan was nervous and fidgety—more so than he usually was. The police had visited the warehouse asking questions which had Dylan close to a breakdown. The higher-ups had talked to him too. With Rebecca gone for more than a week and Dave and Chad disappearing on the same day, all without leaving any notice of any kind, they needed someone to tell the substitutes what to do.
Dylan didn’t thrive in a leading position, but Theo believed he could learn to like it.
With Dylan’s workdays not being as they usually were, it happened that he came home early, and while Theo was glad to see him, it was also worryin
