Home Truths by Sasha Goldie

Author:Sasha Goldie [Goldie, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

15

Nate

"Hey," Ian called from just outside the door to the shop. "I was starting to get a little worried."

"I'm sorry." I opened the passenger door and pulled out the thermal container he'd given me that morning. "There was a live pig on the road."

"A pig? Like, an actual pig?" He held out his arms for the food.

"Yes! And there was nobody around, and it was on like a bend in the road. I couldn't just leave it there." I put the food in his outstretched arms and grabbed my briefcase.

"What did you do about traffic not coming around the bend and hitting the car?" he asked.

I held the door open for him and we went into the garage.

"Well, first, I backed up enough that anyone would be able to spot the car, then put on the emergency flashers." I opened the door to the stairs and we went up. "Then, I pushed him across the road. There was a driveway there."

"Pigs aren't generally happy to be pushed, are they?" he asked as we climbed the stairs.

"I have no idea, but this one was amicable. Turns out he belonged to the family at the end of the driveway. As soon as I got him close, I started yelling, and a man came out to claim him. He'd gotten out of his pen and they didn't even know it."

"Well, that sounds like a fun drive home."

I looked down at my shoes as we walked into the kitchen. "Yeah, but I'm going to have to clean up."

"Go ahead. I'll unbox the food and make sure none of it needs to be rewarmed." He turned to the counter, opening the bag.

"Okay, I'll try to hurry."

I'd had a productive day at the office. My mind worked over the details of the day as I changed clothes and tried to get the mud and dirt from the driveway off of my shoes.

The day had gone extremely well. After lunch, I sat in a small meeting room the hotel had graciously provided—I'd rented eight rooms from them for the potential buyers, it was the least they could do, really—and went over the notes I'd taken. I'd spent a few minutes with each of the buyers, and I had my eye on three of them as being real players. Two were real estate developers. They'd turn the land into homes. The third was a retail developer. He'd bring in shops or a mall. Maybe a complex with restaurants and shopping combined. It could be a windfall financially for the community, all the tax money from the sales of food and merchandise to the tourists that spent time in the area. I could see the ink drying on the contracts already. I sat back in my chair after the last developer left, sighing in relief. Crissy was going to promote me. It was finally happening.

Grabbing my phone, I opened it to check email and accidentally hit the internet explorer app icon. The website for the conservation people popped up. With a sigh, I plopped down on the bed.

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