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“It’s that you hurt yourself and then tried to act like you hadn’t,” he told her sternly as he placed bandages on her knees, then smaller ones on her hands. “I don’t like being lied to. I especially don’t like when you try to hide that you’ve hurt yourself.”
“It’s really just a few scrapes.”
“Faith.”
Yikes. That tone of voice combined with him using her first name told her that he meant business.
She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Sorry.”
Nodding, he lifted her back down. That did not feel good. It did not. “I want you to go home.”
“What? No, I’m sorry. Really. I won’t lie again.”
“I find that hard to believe.”
“Really, please don’t f-fire me.” Panic made her stutter.
“Hey, you’re not fired.”
“Oh. Then why did you tell me to go home?”
“Because you’re hurt. I want you to go home and rest.”
This was . . . crazy. She’d had worse scrapes working on her parents’ farm.
“I’m really okay. I can work.”
“You shouldn’t argue with your boss, you know.”
She bit her lip.
“But at least if you’re here then I can keep a closer eye on you. You can stay and work. But you won’t push yourself too hard.”
Faith breathed out a sigh of relief as she followed him back to her desk.
He pointed at her chair. “Sit.”
She sat.
Then he picked up her water bottle. “Drink.”
She drank.
Sometimes, she felt like a trained seal. But then she realized that he’d just gently cleaned up all her scrapes.
He’d also filled her water bottle with icy cold water before she got here.
Reuben Jones was a contradiction who kept her on her toes.
And she wanted more.
The sound of goats bleating made her jump.
Faith quickly grabbed her phone out of a drawer in her desk, hastily checking the message.
Reuben was in a meeting, but you never knew when he’d pop his head out and catch her doing something he might consider slacking.
In some ways, parts of this job were getting more manageable. In other ways . . . yeah, she was still a complete failure. Yesterday, she’d been shredding documents and, in the process, she’d managed to destroy several things he’d needed. She’d stayed back late to replace them and now she was feeling tired and blurry today.
