Chapter 26By the end of Joseph’s first week, things seemed to be working out okay. He came in on time, got the mundane things like cleaning up the place out of the way and eagerly tackled the chores he had to learn. Both of us worked without a shirt most of the time, and the sight of his naked flesh excited me. I managed to settle for merely enjoying the view.
He liked working with the stone and learned everything I could teach him quickly. He even went to the library over in Mapleton to read everything he could find on alabaster and marble. Within a month he was confidently chiseling the smaller stones into shape, but was still nervous about the bigger pieces.
One afternoon, he accidentally split off a sizable hunk the first piece of pink Tennessee marble he tackled, which rendered it u
