SHELTER by BOSTON CLAIRE

Author:BOSTON, CLAIRE [BOSTON, CLAIRE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bantilly Publishing
Published: 2019-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Jeremy lay awake in bed long after Zamira was fast asleep. He couldn’t stop looking at her, which would be completely creepy if she woke and caught him. But something about her had captured his attention so thoroughly he couldn’t help it.

He wanted to take care of her, protect her, help her any way he could.

And that was bad. She’d be gone in a few days. It didn’t matter that for the first time since he’d moved in, his house felt full and warm, more like a home than a roof over his head.

He couldn’t trust this kind of happiness. It could be too easily ripped from him.

He ran a hand over his beard. He wasn’t getting any sleep at this rate. He got up and took clothes out of his drawer. Then he closed the bedroom door behind him so he didn’t disturb Zamira and dressed in the living room. Fetch snored in his bed, the light and Jeremy’s presence not enough to wake him.

He needed something to keep his mind busy.

He flicked through some of his paperwork. No, it wouldn’t occupy his mind enough.

Grabbing his jacket and shoving his feet into his boots, he headed outside. The cold stung, drawing the heat from him. The clear sky revealed stars and the crescent moon. He jogged over to the shed, pulled back the doors and switched on the light. He inhaled the fresh timber and immediately his muscles relaxed. A bunch of cut pieces lying on his large work bench represented his office desk. He wandered over to his design, reviewed the shape. He hadn’t cared how it looked when he’d first designed it. He planned to spend as little time as possible at it, but now, having Zamira here made him rethink. If one day someone moved in permanently, then his office needed to be a place for him to store all his paperwork, designs and models. His current desk design was little more than a table.

Jeremy dragged a chair over to his work bench and sat down with the design, sketching in some drawers and a desktop paperwork sorter. He’d need shelving to store his models, so he drew a rough plan of what he wanted. He’d take exact measurements later.

Now he had a complete office plan. He huffed. Too optimistic as usual, thinking he’d need an actual office, but it would give him something to do now. The bits he’d already cut for the desk were still usable, he just needed to tweak bits to incorporate the drawers.

He got to work, finding the wood he needed and cutting it to size, the buzz of his table saw whining in the night.

The joy of being so far from his neighbours was no one complained when he worked all hours of the night as he often did.

He cut the sides of the two drawers. He’d dovetail these and cut a groove for the base to go in. He’d need to go to the hardware store to get the right sized ply.

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