Return to the Mountain by P.D. Singer

Author:P.D. Singer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

GARY checked his notes again. He had written down everything Fulton had told him earlier about convertible bonds and managed to look up historical prices for four different issues on three different airlines to the other analyst’s satisfaction. So why had he missed all the questions in the study guide? He threw the pencil down in frustration, wondering if he’d punched the buttons on the calculator wrong.

Ricky came through their front door in shorts and a T-shirt, wiping his face with a towel. He’d abandoned Gary to study alone in favor of working out in the gym in the basement of their apartment building. The subject was something he could probably expound on in his sleep.

“Check my math,” Gary asked before Ricky could slide through the narrow passage between the bed and the couch, which had grown thinner after Gary’d wakened against the glass one horrible morning two weeks earlier.

Pausing in midwipe, Ricky bent to look at the columns of figures. “Why’d you divide instead of multiply?”

“Fulton said to.” Gary checked his notes again. “Market price divided by the percentage premium equals the exchange price.” Had he misunderstood? The number seemed awfully high.

“Why’d you listen to Fulton?” Rick straightened and looked down his straight nose at Gary, who shifted uneasily on the couch amid his books and papers.

“Because he’s supposed to be teaching me stuff?” Gary recalled Edgar’s injunction to the analysts back on his first day.

“He’s supposed to. And is it in his best interest to do that?” Ricky spoke as if the answer was self-evident. And negative.

“Um….” Gary thought the guy would be so grateful to have someone else donate “moments of time” he’d repay with accurate information. Edgar had stopped making the request after the morning meetings, now merely waiting for Gary to follow him. No one else had been summoned since his first week, when everyone had delegated their “task” to the intern.

“No. It is not.” Ricky answered his own question. “His best interest is to keep you around as long as possible. My best interests, however, mean you need to learn everything fast as possible, which means learning things once, and learning them right. So either we educate Fulton on the benefit of educating you, or you spend all your time with me. And then you aren’t going to get exposed to anything I’m not working on, and, just incidentally, drive me crazy by being around all the fucking time.”

“Since it’s in your best interest to have me learn things once, right, and soon, you can put up with my presence.” Ricky’s goals matched Gary’s goals, and Ricky’s sanity wasn’t Gary’s problem. “And don’t think you’re such a joy to be around all the time, either.”

“Boo fucking hoo.” Ricky dropped the towel next to Gary and sat on it. At least he wouldn’t leave a sweaty ass mark. He snagged the pencil out of Gary’s hand. “This is how you do it. Multiply one point percentage premium times your stock price at time of issue—okay, you’re using forty bucks, and your premium is twenty-five percent, so 1.

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