My Boyfriend Cheated With My Best Friend, So the Pack Law Handed Me to His Brother novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Night Man
Duarte's POV
I walked into the plant's books on Tuesday, at the hour the night man slept.
I did not tell her.
She had told me the paper was mine to answer, and I took it as an order, the only one I wanted.
The Fairhaven plant at four in the morning has three lights on and a hum in the floor from the chillers.
I let myself in through the dock with my own key.
I stood in the dark of the loading bay and listened.
The night man was in his chair by the freezer door with his canvas jacket over his knees, snoring.
I had known the night man thirty years.
He had taught me to splice line when I was nine.
I did not wake him.
I went up to the loft and shut the door and sat at the desk where she had sat on my ledger.
For ten years I had read every figure in the Cabral books once a month.
In all that time I had never read them as a man looking for a thief.
I read them that way now.
I started with the thing I had never doubted, the quarterly scallop tallies from the plant manager's own office.
His handwriting was round and courteous.
He had run the plant for fourteen years, since before my father died.
He sent a card to every funeral and every christening in the pack.
The tallies balanced to the pound.
They balanced too well.
I took down the weigh-in sheets from the State Pier auction, the ones Zia signs at five in the morning, and laid them beside his.
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