Boss Takes All by Carl Hancock

Author:Carl Hancock [Hancock, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Adventure
ISBN: 9781742980928
Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers

Chapter Twenty-four

n the day of his wedding Tom McCall enjoyed a special thrill even before he left the house. For the first time in many weeks he woke up in his own bedroom.

The camp bed was comfortable enough, but like the rest of the house, his room was little more than a bare empty shell. That Londiani had reached this advanced stage was mainly because of the four foreign young men. They had worked with unsparing energy and a high level of skill. More than that, they had inspired everyone around them. They had broken the back of the build and every day they were on site, Jim had shaken his head in grateful disbelief.

Tom had been up early to stand at his window. The first light, slanting across the lake as the sun lifted above the unseen ridge of the Aberdares far away to his right was an old and much missed friend. He had slept badly, kept awake by a worry that had troubled more and more the closer he came to this day of days. How selfish was he being to have wanted and been granted two day of days. Standing there looking out across the plains towards the waters of the lake, it seemed plain ridiculous that he was dragging so many people up to Pembroke House school with all the inconveniences involved so that he could marry his Rebecca in the Christina chapel and then draw so many of the same people to Londiani to go through a similar process. He wasn’t even sure which event marked the true marriage. His regret, his remorse was far too late. The day was underway in many practical ways, not least up in the school itself.

Up there those involved had a much less gloomy take on Tom’s selfishness. The duty staff had no problems on getting the children out of bed as the six-thirty wake-up bell clanged in the chapel tower. The din of breakfast was noisier than ever and the chattering and rushing continued undiminished through bed making and chores. The three normal lessons before break passed at lightning speed with even the toughest of the teachers being ready to be drawn off subject by the most obvious red herrings.

‘Miss, why do women have to wear a white dress when they get married?’

They even allowed the variety of answers to come from the class.

‘Women don’t have to do anything that men tell them. I’m getting married in my swimming costume and tackies.’

‘Yeah, Melanie, just cos you’re so stingy. And your husband will only be wearing a pair of underpants.’

‘George Smith, why do you enjoy being disgusting so much?’

‘Sorry, Miss. But you’ve got to admit, Miss, that it made everybody laugh, even Mel.’

At ten o’clock, the early break was over and the school was gathered on the Prefects’ Lawn, listening to the headmaster setting out the plan for the day. As he was talking, a procession of four cars was leaving the A104 at the first Gilgil turn-off making their way into town and the climb up the Nyharuru Road to Pembroke.

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