Against the Tide by Meredith Taylor

Author:Meredith Taylor [Taylor, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The day after his second tutoring session with Darryn, JP was sitting in the small office at Terreblanche International, again working through a large pile of documents with obscure figures that he was supposed to make some kind of sense of. JP felt constrained by the shirt and the tie around his neck. He felt the urge to just run away again, as he had done before, but he knew that after last time, he was walking on thin ice. His grandfather had given him an official warning, and even had a manager have a disciplinary session with him just to humiliate him more. JP knew that he was risking too much by rebelling against his grandfather. What else would he do with his life if he wouldn’t go on to work at Terreblanche International? He was already flunking out of his classes, and he didn’t have any real options for his career. He resigned himself to the thought that he would have to do exactly what his grandfather wanted him to do. At least it gave him some direction in life.

The tiny office was especially humid. The fan that was on JP’s desk was hardly effective, and he had gotten probably the only office in the entire building without working air conditioning. Just another way his grandfather was torturing him, he thought. His shirt was becoming moist with sweat, and JP rolled up the sleeves and loosened the tie around his neck to give himself some relief. He fantasized about being in the pool then, freeing himself of his clothes and diving in, leaving every worry behind. And in his fantasy, there was always someone else there. Someone who had been in his thoughts since their encounter in the locker room. Someone who he was only thinking about more since they started their tutoring sessions. In his fantasy, he saw the strong, stern and handsome features of Darryn’s face greeting him as he emerged from the water. There was no smile there, but a look of deep connection and longing. The beads of water were falling from his strong chin, his dark hair wet and curly, his brown, soft skin calling out to JP. And JP thought about swimming closer to him, meeting him in the pool and taking his hand, that soft, large hand that JP had held for so long at their first tutoring session. JP imagined staring into his brown eyes, the eyes that held so much pain but also so much strength. The proud eyes that he wanted to stare into for hours. He pictured the inviting, small mouth, agape, breathing heavily in anticipation. And that body that he had seen completely that day in the locker room, the day he had really looked at Darryn Fredericks for the first time.

“What are you doing staring at the wall?” came the harsh voice of his grandfather. The old man stood at the door, his eyes narrowed on JP with a scowl on his wrinkled face.

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