Chapter 4
Four
“ A ll right. I want you to keep me abreast of everything. You can text me, and I’ll help you as much as I can. But I need to have the next six weeks off and be interrupted as little as possible.”
“All right,” George said, looking at the iPad screen that showed the schedule for the next six weeks. George had been a dependable foreman for years, and now, Cannon was going to completely depend on him.
“Do you have any questions?” Cannon asked, wishing he’d given George more responsibilities over the years.
But he was the kind of business owner who liked to be hands-on and doing everything himself.
He never guessed that he would need to take this kind of time off.
But he knew it was absolutely essential.
In fact, it might be too late. And then… He wasn’t sure what he was going to do.
Even if it wasn’t too late, he wasn’t sure what he was going to do, because it was obvious that his wife was…not happy. To say the least.
She hadn’t answered any of his texts, hadn’t even responded, and he wondered if maybe she’d changed her number or blocked his. He didn’t know how to tell.
“No. I don’t. I’m sure it might be a little bit rocky, but I’ll deal with it. I know how to put these things together, and Remy in the office can take care of the billing and all that.”
“Yeah. The girls in the office have things covered. If you’ve got the outside stuff covered, they’ve got the inside stuff covered, and Micah and Shelley will hopefully keep the sales rolling in.
” That was the one place where he really didn’t spend a whole lot of time.
Word-of-mouth was their sales for them, but they had Micah and Shelley who went to trade shows and worked on marketing.
It had been more than enough to keep them busier than they could handle.
Maybe Lauren was upset about her mom passing away. Or something else. Maybe he needed to find her and spend a little time holding her hand. But he was almost sure she would come out of it. Lauren was happy and upbeat, and whatever the issue was, they would work it out.
There was one small problem.
He didn’t know where she was.
“All right. I will only be gone as long as I need to be to get some personal things straightened up. Then I’ll be back.”
He didn’t really think it was that serious.
Six weeks might be too much. Still, he’d never left his business for that long, and he was a little nervous about leaving it now.
But his wife and marriage meant a lot to him, and he wasn’t going to just let her go.
He wanted to fix this. Any rational man would, of course.
There was no cheating happening, unless there was something he didn’t know.
And if there was, they were going to have to talk. If she was cheating on him…
The thought made his heart race, and despite himself, his pace picked up.
He headed to his truck, and he was going to go to her sister-in-law’s house first. A call might make more sense, but he felt the need to move.
If she wasn’t there, in Lexington, Kentucky, then he was going to look in Raspberry Ridge.
Her mom still had a place there, and it had been left to Lauren in her mom’s will.
They had talked about using it as a summer house, but he had been reluctant to do that, since he didn’t want to leave his business for the summer. Or even for a couple of weeks.
In hindsight, maybe he should have been more open to the idea. It probably meant something to her.
Still, they could work it out. He got in his truck and pointed it south.