Chapter 98: Diamonds Were Universal
Reese
It was a little after nine when I finally decided to call it a day. My back ached, my shirt was soaked with sweat, and my head throbbed from twelve straight hours of chaos. I was f*****g spent.
Frank, one of my best workers, had fallen off a ladder yesterday while installing new lighting fixtures above the main bar. He crashed straight through a glass table.
The shard that sliced into his neck had been millimeters from severing an artery. If Marcus hadn’t been right there to apply pressure and call the ambulance, Frank might not have made it. The image of all that blood still haunted me.
I rode with him to the hospital. I watched them stitch him up. Listened to the doctor explain the compensation paperwork, the liability forms, the endless
