The Protective One by Shelley Shepard Gray

Author:Shelley Shepard Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2020-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

“Almost as much as the sight of a group of Amish kids scrambling after them.”

MONDAY

“Will, at your next break, Mr. Kerrigan wants to see you,” Craig, his supervisor, said as he stepped over a collection of tools on the ground beside the trailer Will and his team were working on. “Can you do that?”

That was one thing Will had always liked about Craig. He valued their time and jobs and tried to stay out of their way instead of manage every bit of their days.

“Jah, sure,” Will murmured as he looked up at the clock. He had a break coming up in fifteen minutes. “I’ll go up at one forty-five.”

“I’ll let him know. Danke.”

After Craig went on his way, Evan looked up at him. He was on his knees, fastening in bolts onto the floor of a trailer. “What do you think that’s about?”

“No idea.”

“Do you think there was a problem with one of the trailers last week?” he asked worriedly.

Will knew why Evan was concerned. As it sometimes happened, they’d had more orders than usual for their newest trailer model.

Craig had brought in five more men to help with the load but had put Will in charge of making sure they met their timelines and goals. The five men were good workers, but the addition had set some of the other men on the team off. They were used to their routines and didn’t adjust as easily as Will had hoped. More than once he’d had to ask a team to redo a task that hadn’t met the factory’s high standards.

By Thursday, everyone was stressed and short-tempered. Will knew they were only human. Someone could have made a mistake that Will hadn’t caught before the trailer had moved onto the next team. He hoped that wasn’t the case.

“Let’s not go borrowing trouble, Evan,” he said. “You know how Mr. Kerrigan is. He could be calling me in for any sort of reason.”

Evan’s posture relaxed. “You’re right. One time he called me in just to ask about Ruth’s fried chicken. Knowing him, he could be asking about last week’s lunch.”

Evan was not wrong.

“I hope he doesn’t ask me about the food I’ve been bringing in. I would have to tell him to ask my mother.”

“Nothing wrong with that. Your mother is a mighty fine cook.”

Will chuckled as he returned to work. Evan was right. His mamm was a fine cook, and he needed to take some of his own advice: whatever was going to happen would happen. There was no need to go borrowing trouble.

He wasn’t quite so confident when he eventually stood outside of Mr. Kerrigan’s office, however. He couldn’t hear the exact phone conversation his boss was having behind closed doors, but it sure didn’t sound good.

After another five minutes, he heard the call end and Mr. Kerrigan grumble under his breath. After another few seconds, he called, “Will, come on in.”

Looking around the large room, with Mr. Kerrigan’s desk on one end and a conference table on the other, Will half-expected to see John Byler working at the table.

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