Chapter Twenty-six
It was a slow day at work, most of the employees were off with just a skeleton crew on duty at the hotel and restaurants. Chad took the day off to see the fall colors. He always waited a week or so too long to go. The mountains were the best color, but they turned earlier than down here at the mere six thousand seven hundred foot elevations.
I was happy he wasn’t a hunter. A prior boss thought it was hilarious to go into gory details about shooting the deer and the entire process of field dressing it. I lost my lunch on his desk one year, I was the one laughing then.
I was in a somber mood sitting at my desk. I’d come clean last night with Felicia and Mason about my confronting Meredith and Crandel at the church. They both were worried I had taken a risk and I
