Page 10 of Kingston (Savage Dragons #2)

“I don’t want to do this anymore.” Kings leaned back in his chair and waited for him to continue.

“I’m sick of doing things for the town, and they never even say thanks anymore.

They used to. When we started out helping them with projects, they were always thanking us.

But now it’s like they’ve decided that they don’t need to tell us anymore.

And I, for one, would like to hear it once in a while.

” Kings asked him who hadn’t said it to him today.

“The mayor. She’s doing a good job but when I went by there with the specs on the new admin building, at first she acted like she had better things to do than to speak to me then she rushed me through a meeting, one that I had set up to talk to her about and then shoved me out the door and onto the sidewalk like I was a pest or something. ”

“Do you know what today is?” He said it was Wednesday. “Other than that, what started up today? Something to do with kids. And I think if I remember correctly, her firstborn has started today.”

“You mean the start of school. I didn’t know she had kids.” Kings told him that she had four, but only the oldest was starting school today. “So I should have known that and cut her some slack about my meeting.”

“I’d say she’s pretty distracted, being a single mom and her oldest is starting school today, so she more than likely had to miss a meeting with you.

Or someone else who had an early appointment with her today.

” He said his meeting was at nine-thirty.

“About the time the bus would have picked up her son. It couldn’t have been easy for her to leave him with the neighbors while she had to run to work. ”

“How the hell did you know so much about the mayor and her offspring?” He told him. “Oh. I didn’t know that she had called you instead of me when she was wanting to apologize to me about this morning. She could have explained about her son, and I would have changed my time.”

“She is a professional and didn’t want to seem less so to us about her crying about how she’d treated you this morning.

” Cassian asked if he should call her back.

“I wouldn’t have cared if she had just explained to me what was going on.

Hell, I’m hoping that someday I have that exact same problem.

You did it, too, didn’t you? Had to take Trevor to school. ”

“I did, and since he’s older, if I had broken down like I almost did, I don’t think that he would have ever forgiven me.

On the way home, I was a blithering idiot.

I’m just happy that I didn’t have a meeting with anyone, or I might not have been as nice as she seemed to be when I had a kid to go to school.

It’s hard. Harder than anything that I’ve done with him so far, and he’s a kid, not a little boy. ”

“I’m going to call her and explain about how she should have told me.

I really would have been all right with her changing the appointment time, no problem.

” While his brother made his call, Kings got the blueprint approved and signed off on, and sent it to the architect to start on it as soon as possible.

Now, if everything else were so easy to get taken care of.

Cassian came back to his office with a watery smile on his face.

“I shouldn’t have been upset. I’m going to make sure from now on that I have it on my calendar when school starts so that I can avoid such calls in the future.

That was difficult to talk to her without joining her in her tears. I’m a sap.”

“Nah, you’re just a man with a big heart.

” They talked a bit more about the major projects coming up and decided they were going to do some groundwork before going ahead with the inspection of the schools.

They, at this point, had no idea what sort of things needed to be updated or upgraded, and didn’t want to confuse the terms. “Upgraded would be all the computer systems and the things that the teachers use for teaching. Updating would mean that the entire school, including the grounds and the things that keep the building from falling down on their heads. We need to figure out what needs to be done and what can be put off for a few more years.”

“I’m all for that.” They did talk about the new influx of teachers who were coming in to teach this year.

At the end of the last year, they had three teachers retire, and two of them went off for an extended maternity leave.

Since the school system was so up-to-date and well-maintained, it wasn’t difficult to get teachers to come here for the kids.

“Also, we need to make sure that they’ll have background checks made on all of them.

We don’t want what happened at the other school district to happen here. We need those checks.”

The football coach had a felony against him and was to be prevented from teaching at any school.

Also, one of the teachers in another district had trouble with the law about their babysitter.

The woman had been dating the underage young man since he started working for her.

It was a huge scandal that cost the district a huge fine for not doing proper checks on the people who worked for them.

As dinner time rolled around, he was happy to notice that they got a lot more done than he thought they would have.

Some of the things that he’d earmarked for tomorrow to get a jump on were finished up, and his entire morning was cleared thanks to his brother’s help today.

After Cassian left for lunch and returned, he brought Tucker back with him, and they were able to get everything on their calendar finished off, and some of the things for the next day.

It meant that he’d be able to sleep past six in the morning tomorrow, and he was thrilled about that. He never got to sleep in.

“Why don’t we all have dinner tonight. Kaida and I would love it if you guys were to come over for some steaks on the grill so that we can celebrate the day.

It’s not all the time that we can get so much work done in one afternoon that we don’t have to start early in the morning.

” They all laughed because it was true, and that it was because having Tucker there had made things go faster, as they didn’t have to run him down for answers when they needed him.

“Bring Skye and Trevor too. We’ll make a family night of it. ”

“I’ll have to ask her. I know she had plans for the day, but I’m not sure how much she might well have been able to get done by herself.” Tucker said that she’d been with Kaida all day, so maybe they had just as much luck. “I’ll ask her now. For all we know, we might have both had a good day.”

It turned out that the woman had gotten a lot done.

They’d done several background checks today that came back positive, and one that didn’t.

It hadn’t mattered a great deal on the one that didn’t come back with a good record, as she was only going to be a secondary teacher for the third-grade class, and she wasn’t needed.

But they’d keep her name on file just in case it ever came up again about her working with the school district.

He’d forgotten that Trevor couldn’t come over, as he’d had a night experience with the pack.

He’d been looking forward to it for weeks now, and they didn’t want to disappoint him about the dinner.

They’d have plenty more dinners together, but his first camping trip was going to be epic for the young man.

Kings wished he could have joined them; that’s how excited Trevor had made it sound when he talked about it.

Dinner was as it always was. Loud, fun, and loud.

They were a very loud group when together, but they had fun too.

As soon as they all sat down to dinner, they talked about their day and not what they’d done today.

It was a good time for all of them, and he wouldn’t trade his family for anyone in the world.