18
She hadn’t rang. Not the night before, like I’d asked of her. Not that morning before work. As I hopped from Dad’s truck, after a journey led by steely silence, she still hadn’t called.
A glitch seemed to hit the site’s stride, when Dan’s Hi-Lux drew up alongside us. Sean paused in his hoist of some wood, his body still half-bent, his gaze lifting to me. Ethan spared barely a glance before giving a shake of his head and ducking into the cabin. Besides Gabe, who didn’t even stop, only Nathan seemed still able to fully function, as he sent a nod Dad’s way and set the mixer to work.
The doors opened on the Hi-Lux, and Josh and Dan hopped out.
Josh’s covert peeks my way through breakfast had driven me nuts, like he had something he wanted to say but thought better of it, but even that h
