Chapter 2
Earl Youngblood glared at his phone. Caleb had dodged his call again. He wiped his bald pate, then his face as he grunted in frustration. Resting his elbows on his desk, he clenched his hands together as he pondered what he would do next. He should be focused on payroll, and the latest marketing reports his daughter, Joan, brought him, but this thing with Caleb had distracted him for several days.
He glanced at the phone and deliberated on calling Sebastian Rush. Joan had said that Caleb seemed to be taken with him. Earl weighed whether calling a stranger, a man his son hadn’t introduced him to, would help Earl in making it right with Caleb. He picked up the handset but put it down once he heard a knock on the door.
“Dad?” Joan’s head peered around the door as she stepped insi
