Chapter Twelve
The men finished clearing the cedar a day early. Brodie waited until they’d all finished breakfast before handing them their final checks, including the bonus he’d promised them for wrapping up early.
Paying them, especially the bonus, felt… good. Really good. Like he’d accomplished something significant. He was good at running things. He knew it. He just needed to figure out the office. Maybe now that the men would be out of his hair he could figure it out.
Johnny Benoit and his twin brother, Jimmy, were the last to leave. “So you ropin’ at the fair?” Johnny asked as he took the envelope Brodie handed him.
The county fair was ten days away, and while he and Ben hadn’t practiced much this summer, the two of them worked intuitively, and had won team roping three years run
