Page 84 of Wish You Faith
Evan
Thanks for filling in for me the next two days. I’ll be back soon.
Connor
Don’t mention it. What are brothers for?
Evan
How are Mom and Dad?
Connor
They’re all over Marsha, waiting for her to deliver anytime now.
Evan
Whew. That takes the heat off me.
Connor
Just you wait. Mom might be in a good mood now, but Dad’s talking about taking her to Hong Kong for a few weeks so that she can visit her relatives.
Evan
Both of them?
Connor
Yep. It’ll just be the two of us at the HQ. Think you can handle it, bro?
Evan would be telling the truth if he said that he’d rather not see his parents at the office. All his life he’d been sheltered by them, only to return with an MBA to be put in Connor’s shadow.
However, since he’d been in Savannah and spent time in an entirely different work environment at the Christmastown Tree Farm, he realized that peace in his family would be somewhere in between his two options. Instead of quitting the family business and running away from Seattle, and instead of suffering at work and giving up his dreams, he had found the middle ground: doing a bit of both.
In other words, he was about to compromise with Mom. If she got a whiff of that, she’d take advantage of the situation yet again. Hadn’t it been enough compromise for him to indenture himself to Cavanaugh Shipping for ten years?
Well, maybe indentured was a strong word. His VP salary wasn’t small change.
Connor
You know that I support your proposal to open a Savannah office. But timing is important. Asking the right question at the wrong time won’t help your cause.
Evan
I get it. Thanks.
Connor
We’ll talk and pray this weekend.
Evan
Sure thing.
Connor was right in that timing was an important factor. Not only with his professional life, but also in his personal life.
As Evan watched Rosie sleep, he recalled his arrival at the condo.
