Twenty-Six
Holly
I pull out my laptop after Austin leaves, searching Bailey Timber Corp and North Forest Lumber Company. There it is. A rivalry that’s existed the last five years, ever since my dad moved his company here, documented in the local online newspaper.
I sink into my couch, reading the horrible things my dad has done to them. Poaching customers with promises of lower prices and then not sticking to it. Bailey Timber accepting the customers back at the lower cost my dad promised when his company couldn’t deliver. Spreading lies about Austin’s family’s business to make it seem like they were shutting down and workers were going to lose their jobs. One article implied that my dad’s company might have something to do with a fire that destroyed some of Bailey Timber’s harvesting l
