When She Knows by Jessie Clever

Author:Jessie Clever [Clever, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780990702436
Publisher: Someday Lady Publishing, LLC

“You’re seeing her again tonight?”

Ian looked up from the plywood and sawhorse table that he had taken over as his desk in a back room of the factory. Fletch stood in the doorway, smiling suggestively, one hand casually tucked into the pocket of his tailored slacks.

Ian grinned back at him. “Maybe,” he said, even as he shuffled through the paperwork on his makeshift desk. “She does have my car.”

He shrugged, trying to match Fletch’s innate ability to keep anything and everything low key.

“Yeah, right,” Fletch said as he came into the room and sat down on an overturned bucket, crossing one leg over the other in an impossibly relaxed way. “You been seeing that pretty reporter a lot these past couple weeks.”

Ian looked up again.

“Yeah,” Ian said, “I’ve been seeing that pretty little reporter a couple times.”

“Seems like a hell of a lot longer than a couple weeks,” Fletch muttered.

Ian ignored him, picking up his smartphone from where it was still plugged into Fletch’s charger. He pulled the phone loose, hitting the power key to see how many phone calls he’d missed from his father. Only when the phone finally lit up, it wasn’t his father’s number on the missed call list.

“Shit,” he whispered before he could stop himself.

“What’s up, my man?” Fletch said from his precarious perch on the bucket.

His mother’s number popped up five times on the missed call list in the past ten minutes.

“Fletch, did you set the alarm after the last installation team left today?”

Fletch leaned forward on his bent knee, his own smartphone in his hand as he absently tapped at its screen. “Yeah, why?”

“Because I think we might be getting visitors,” Ian said, pressing the button to dial his mother’s cell.

But before the call could connect, a bang sounded through the factory as someone pounded on the loading dock door.

“And there they are,” Ian said, disconnecting the call and tossing the phone down on the desk. “Straighten your tie,” he said to Fletch as he pulled on his own suit jacket from where he had tossed it on a nail sticking out from the wall.

Ian stepped onto the main factory floor, drawing in a deep breath as another loud bang sounded from the loading dock door. This was only a scare tactic. There was no other reason for his father to suddenly appear on his doorstep if this was even his father. Ian suspected it was more likely that Mike Darke would have sent one of his brothers, Ted or Harry, to check in on the place. In the six weeks he’d been at the factory, Ian had made considerable progress even with his father’s intentional hiccup with the zoning permits. Ian had absolutely nothing to worry about. He was on schedule to start running the first orders through the plant in three weeks, shipping in six. Fletch had already secured more than the initial quota promised to the executives, so there was nothing his father could throw at him.

He drew another breath, walking past the assembling belts and around the chest molding rooms.

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