Bun in Her Oven by Simone Belarose

Author:Simone Belarose [Belarose, Simone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

15

Thomas

It was a good thing I had to take a shower anyway. I helped clean Claire up, guided her to the bucket and held back her hair. Joanne rushed out from the hallway bathroom and was by our side in a moment.

She shooed me away. “Go oh, get. Clean yourself up I’ve got this.” She looked at Claire and murmured softly to her. “It’s okay sweetie. Momma’s here.”

I felt bad but knew that Claire would be furious with me - and with herself - if I wasn’t at that meeting.

We could not afford to skip out on it, for any reason.

I hopped in the shower, quarantined the shirt she’d been sick on and got dressed in the only suit I owned. Something I had tailored to my specific frame. It fit great but the charcoal color was kind of bland after seeing the various colors of other suits at the last meeting.

Now that I was attending business meetings with people whose net worth was probably larger than Sunrise Valley as a whole, I should probably look into getting more.

Claire’s voice drifted back to me. Eventually, you’re going to be doing high-level decisions and leave the daily running to somebody else. That’s what it means to own a business, Thomas. The ultimate goal is to manage the business itself and leave the day-to-day for somebody else. You’re a captain, not the navigator and oarsman and deckhand.

It was a hard pill to swallow. The work was part of what I loved about owning my own business. I knew she was right but it didn’t make it any easier to accept.

Being a control freak was something deeply ingrained in me. I could not stand to relinquish control to somebody else. Giving Sam that managerial position had been one of the hardest decisions in my life.

I took one glance in the mirror, tied my favorite Eldridge knot and gave Claire a kiss on the head from outside the splash zone on my way out the door. She murmured something to me that I didn’t catch, and I replied, “I love you too. I’ll be home soon.”

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