Running Scarred by Williams Jackie

Author:Williams, Jackie [Williams, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

The soft clanking sound came to him when he was about half way along the path.

The workmen were obviously still there, loading up the huge pile of scaffolding that he had seen earlier in the day. For a moment he wondered why they were working so late, but then he breathed a sigh of relief. At least he wouldn’t have to see her on her own. He didn’t think he could trust himself to be near her alone.

It was only as he neared the Chateau that he realized that the men were working silently. It was strange. Normally they clattered and chattered all the time, friendly banter and jokes falling from their lips every second that they worked. The silence seemed so odd that he slowed his steps and peered through the bushes.

He could scarcely believe his own eyes.

She had changed her clothes. The pretty yellow dress was gone and she was back in her jeans and t-shirt, hoisting a couple of metal bars onto a shoulder that she had padded with a small square of thick cloth. She staggered, her tiny frame slightly unsteady, before she balanced them up and moved them to the side of the lorry. She tipped them up on end next to a line of about twenty more. Then she clambered into the back of the truck and began pulling each pipe up individually and laying it between the two stacks of scaffold boards already on the floor space.

He stood there watching her in amazement. When she had finished loading the twenty bars she jumped down from the lorry and began the whole process again. There were already about a hundred of the metal tubes on the lorry and the same in boards. His mouth dropped open as she went back to the still massive pile. Was she really going to load the whole lot by herself? Her hair was coming undone from the sparkly clip she always wore, floating about her pale face as she worked and he noticed how her slender arms trembled as she picked up the next lot of metal. This time she stopped by the side of the lorry and wiped her hand across her brow. He could see by the tension in her face that she was utterly exhausted.

He shook his head and pushed his way out of the bushes.

“What the heck do you think you are doing?” He grabbed the metal bar before it fell as she jumped in surprise. “Where are Sylvan and his men? They should be doing this.” He flung the bar into the back of the truck as if it weighed no more than a feather.

She barely looked at him as she trudged back to the pile of metal.

“They finished taking this lot down this afternoon and didn’t have the time to load it before they stopped for the day. This one must be done by the morning. As there’s nobody else here, it’s down to me to get it done. Now if you

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