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“I feel like I should feel bad that we kind of just pushed Keith off on your mother,” Saylor said.
“Hey, if anyone can get Keith out of that apartment and eating decent food like a human being, it’s my mom,” I said. “I don’t feel guilty about shit. Besides, sounds like she’s gonna be busy tomorrow. We will have the whole day alone.”
“Yeah?” she asked. “What do you think we should do?”
“Spend the whole fucking day in bed.”
And that was exactly what we did.
Though we actually spend the whole time sleeping.
Still, one of the best fucking days of my life up to that point.
Saylor - 5 months
“It’s weird to see it so busy,” I said as my mother and I stood back, watching dozens of men walk in and out of my warehouse over and over, carrying various boxes, pushing things on dollies, everyone looking determined and completely sure of what they were doing.
And I stood there kind of awestruck because, quite frankly, I didn’t know shit about this new business Anthony and I, with some help from Lorenzo Costa himself, had started.
A, get this, construction business.
Something that neither Anthony nor I knew a damn thing about. But, somehow, something we were plowing forward with.
I think some part of me figured it would take many months, if not years, to start a new business once my mother, Ant, and I had decided not to franchise my father’s gym.
But, nope.
From the moment the decision was made to when we started ordering supplies took all of two weeks.
Sure, it had been a busy two weeks. Involving endless paperwork, tax nonsense, decisions about logos and letterheads and healthcare plans. But, still, at the end of it, we were ready to start hiring people.
We already had our first job lined up too.
Adding on another level to Lorenzo Costa’s brownstone.
Apparently, the decision to open this business mostly stemmed from a conversation between Ant and Lorenzo on the day that Lorenzo first gave the job of watching the Czech crew to Ant.
I’d been on-board because, quite frankly, I couldn’t think of anything else to go into business doing anyway. Besides, it sounded like the plan was for us to let the company be run by people who actually knew about construction. While Anthony… handled the books. And I occasionally dropped in to show my face and remind them to stay in line.
It would leave my time free to do, well, I didn’t know what. Spend time with Fury. Hang out with my mom at the gym. Make stronger connections with Anthony’s family.
And, my mother would remind me on occasion when I was worried about being “purposeless,” I would eventually be a wife and mother. My days would be plenty full.
Until then, she encouraged me to stop questioning, and start enjoying.
I decided to give that a try.
Fury let out a couple of half-hearted huffs at a passing skateboard before going back to watching the men pass by with their endless packages.
“It’s kind of nice,” my mom said. “This is probably similar to what it looked like back when it was a paper business.”
There was a sudden screaming of my phone in my back pocket, making me reach for it as my heart thudded in my chest.
“What the hell is that?” she asked.
“Fall alert,” I said, swiping to unlock my screen.
“What do you mean a fall alert?”
