School of Fish (Fish Out of Water Book 6) by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781644058886
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2020-12-14T18:30:00+00:00

JACKSON HAD to pass the football practice field as he made his way to the administration building, and he looked across the grass to see Henry showing something on his phone to a stocky man in his late twenties, brown-haired, blue eyed, and as pretty as a field of daisies.

Henry’s eyes flickered to Jackson as he sauntered by, giving him a brief nod but keeping his concentration on the man Jackson assumed was Baldwin Schroeder. Something about the way Henry carried himself—the stiffness of his posture, the way he crossed his arms, the neutrality of his expression—told Jackson that he was trying hard to hide his dislike of the person he was talking to.

Ah. That was what they called in the business a clue.

Jackson kept going, walking wide around the fence to head for the admin building, hoping he could check in as a visitor.

By the time he got there, he was drenched in sweat and so grateful for the air-conditioning he almost collapsed. There was something about the sun on the football field—probably the humidity—that made the heat so intense and so close it seemed to stop his breath.

He tried not to sweat all over the Formica counter and smiled at the grim-faced secretary behind the desk. “Hi, I’d like to talk to Mrs. Eccleston?”

“Sign in, please,” the woman said sourly. The nameplate on her desk read Shirley Anderson, and Jackson wondered if she saved any of that disdain for her students or if she spent it all on him.

Jackson signed the register, and Ms. Anderson plopped a school map and a visitor’s badge in front of him. “Put your name there and follow the map to here.” She circled a destination. “It’s in the K block, the portable on the end by the gate.”

The gate actually backed up against the parking lot behind the football practice field—which had been open, dammit. He was heading, in fact, back to where Henry was, and given that the campus had a tendency to sprawl in the middle of the city, he wanted to whimper. Okay, okay, fine. Maybe he wasn’t 100 percent yet, because the heat and the humidity really were sapping his will to live, but he was damned if he admitted that to anybody.

“Are there any water fountains on the—”

“You’ll see them on the sides of these two buildings,” she interrupted in a bored tone.

“Any vending machines with cold water?” he asked, and he had to admit, he was sort of pushing her buttons now because she was being a pill. He didn’t usually get this response from people. He tried a pretty smile. “I’ve got sodas in here for my buddy, but I gotta admit, some clear water would be—”

“At the end of the building,” she said, no smile in her icy gray eyes at all. “You’ll see it. You should leave now before she goes for the day. They really weren’t required to come back after lunch, but most of the teachers stayed to fix up their rooms.

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