Body Over Troubled Waters by Denise Swanson

Author:Denise Swanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2021-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The Cupid Shuffle

The parent conference at the elementary school scheduled for seven fifteen to eight fifteen that morning had gone on and on. Instead of the hour Skye had allotted for the meeting, it hadn’t ended until eight forty. And only then because the kids arrived to start their day, which meant the teachers had to get to their classes.

Now, dodging both students and staff, Skye flew down the hall leading to the exit, praying that none of the teachers would stop her to chat or ask for her assistance with anything. It was difficult to explain to anyone who was assigned to a single building that she had to split her time equally among all of the district’s schools and she absolutely couldn’t be late for her next appointment.

Having only one supervisor, most of the faculty couldn’t conceive of the delicate balancing act it took for Skye to appease her trio of bosses, especially, with two of the three being über competitive with each other.

Thank goodness for Carolyn! The elementary principal was the only one Skye’s principals who didn’t see a cancelation or a skipped day at her school as a hideous insult to her personally and to her building.

Thoughts of Neva’s displeasure at having already waited twenty-four hours for the boy with the suspicious pocket watch to be interviewed had Skye increasing her speed to an all-out sprint. Patience wasn’t the junior high principal’s strong suit. Neither was accepting excuses.

On the bright side, the parents that she and the grade school team had been working with for the past three years had finally agreed to having their son, Larson, evaluated. The boy had been struggling academically since the second semester of kindergarten, but his dad had always insisted that his son would catch up with his peers and had resisted all recommendations for testing.

Ultimately, Larson’s father had had to acknowledge that his child was falling further and further behind the other students. It probably helped that his son’s behavior had become defiant and unruly at home rather than just at school.

Happy that Larson would now have a chance to get the help he urgently needed, Skye slid behind the wheel of her Mercedes and immediately unzipped the insulated bag waiting for her on the passenger seat. She pulled on her seat belt with one hand and unwrapped her sandwich with the other.

Although it was super early for lunch, she’d skipped breakfast and this was probably her only chance to eat until late afternoon. Biting into the BLT, she decided to call it brunch.

Thankful that Dorothy insisted on packing a lunch for both her and Wally, Skye took a second to enjoy the homemade bread and crispy bacon. When her husband had first insisted on special ordering the breakfast meat from a company in Texas, she had thought he was being extravagant, but she had to admit there was a definite difference between it and the package she usually picked up at the supermarket.

Chewing slowly to savor the flavor, she drove the short distance to the junior high.

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