The Path to Piney Meadows by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Fiction
Published: 2013-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

For the first time since he’d met her, Anna chattered. The entire walk home, she talked nonstop about how happy everyone was with his new plan and how innovative it was.

He couldn’t believe a group of people could be so excited about banked overtime. Personally, Chad had never been excited about it because even though Gary always promised equal time off, whenever anyone asked for the time off, Gary replied that it wasn’t good for the company—or, in other words, him—and the time off was denied. Whenever anyone asked to be paid for it, Gary quickly reminded everyone that the agreement had been for equal time off only, not pay at time-and-a-half.

When Chad received his last paycheck, Gary hadn’t paid out any of his banked overtime, even on termination of his employment. They had no punch clock at the office. The only record of banked overtime was on paper, on written requests. Chad had kept a file in his desk, but he hadn’t thought to take it with him when he impulsively quit. He had no doubt that Gary had destroyed it when going through his desk. He’d never taken a copy home, and Chad wasn’t going to fight him for it because it was a battle he would never win, even though what Gary had done was against the law.

Chad would never do such a thing to these good people here. In fact, when they completed this order, Chad planned to ask Bart if he could give everyone a small bonus for their hard work and dedication, and he had no doubt Bart would agree, even though it technically came right out of Bart’s pocket as the only shareholder.

Anna finally stopped her chatter when they arrived at her door. Instead of giving him a quick nod and disappearing before he could get a word in, she turned to him and smiled.

The stars in her eyes nearly blinded him.

Just like in a book, where the hero of the story falls madly in love with the heroine at first sight, his heart pounded and his head swam. In his mind, he pictured her leaning forward, resting her hands on his shoulders, raising herself up on her tiptoes, and kissing him hard and passionately. They would declare their love for each other, all the problems would melt away, the hero would propose, the heroine would swoon and answer affirmatively, and the book would be over, with a happily-ever-after ending.

But then, reality intruded.

He’d really been reading too many sappy books lately.

She smiled and looked down at her clasped hands. “You are such a good man, Chad. We are very blessed to have you running the factory.”

A good man.

His heart sank. He wanted, needed, to be so much more to her. He really felt God had put Anna in his path for a reason, and he wanted the reason to be because one day soon she would marry him.

But for now, if good was all he was, he would take it. There were so many worse things—at least being “good” had the potential for more.

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