Fated to My Cruel CEO novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Plant Floor
By two o'clock the line was running again.
Florence had made the calls herself, one name at a time, from a list of three hundred and forty.
They came back in their boots and aprons, and they pinned their badges on without a word.
The woman with the gray braid took her place at line four and checked the belt twice.
Nobody smiled.
They were waiting, and I knew what for.
At a quarter past two, the door of the executive corridor opened.
My father walked out onto the plant floor in his gray suit, with his hair combed and his church pin straight.
He had been locked in his office for four hours, and nothing about him showed it.
He climbed the steps to the platform by the loading dock, where Ansel had stood on the first Monday.
He took the microphone off its stand and tapped it twice.
The conveyor wound down.
"Friends," he said. "Please. Just a few minutes."
Three hundred and forty people turned around.
I stood at the back with Ansel, by the time clock.
He did not touch me.
His hand was beside mine, an inch away.
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