Love at First Site by Phoebe MacLeod

Author:Phoebe MacLeod [MacLeod, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

17

My plan to get to work early and settle in before everyone else arrives backfires massively as, when I pull up outside the site office at eight, the place is already a hive of activity. There are people everywhere, climbing ladders, walking around the scaffolding, and there’s a backing track of dozens of radios, all of which sound like they’re tuned to different stations. Partly blocking the entrance to the site is a massive articulated lorry with a load of bricks, which the crane operator at the back is offloading onto the ground, and forklift drivers are then ferrying to one of the houses about halfway down.

‘Afternoon,’ Noah greets me with a smile as I enter the office. He’s studying the wallchart with the holidays on it and adding a few annotations.

‘What time do you guys normally start?’ I ask him. ‘I thought I was early.’

‘I usually unlock the site at seven, and the guys start arriving shortly after that. The first deliveries start arriving at around eight. You’re just in time for the weekly team meeting. Did you want to lead that, or would you rather I did it this time?’

Noah has definitely taken me under his wing, and I’m both grateful and a little annoyed by it. Grateful, because I now have a habitable caravan with clean curtains and bedding that isn’t likely to give me a skin disease, but annoyed because all his interventions just keep reminding me how hopelessly out of my depth I am here. I’ve taken his advice and put on a pair of jeans this morning, but I’m acutely aware of the steel toe-capped boots. I have been wearing them this weekend to try to break them in a bit and stop them looking so new, but they still feel like bags of cement strapped to my feet, and I’ve had a slightly hairy journey from the caravan park as they’re slightly too wide for the dainty pedals in the Fiat, so I accidentally caught the side of the brake a couple of times when changing gear.

‘Why don’t you run it today, and I’ll take the opportunity to observe and get a feel for how things work,’ I tell him, settling myself behind the desk and turning on the computer. After I finished cleaning the caravan yesterday, I snuck down here with the leftover products and had a bit of a blitz in here as well, not that Noah seems to have noticed. The keyboard is less of a health hazard, and I also cleared up the kitchen area. The computer was password protected, but I laughed to myself when I typed in the string of letters written on the post-it note stuck to the bottom of the screen and found that I was in. Cyber security was obviously not Andy’s bag. I wasn’t surprised, when I tested it, to find that Orchestra had cancelled my subscription to the online project-planning software I’m used to, so I set up a new subscription for myself.

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