"Holly Lisle - Minerva Wakes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lisle Holly)

He nodded and wandered back out to the living room,

Darryl Kiakra scrunched lower in the folding chair and
tried to block out Geoff Forests nasa] voice. Geoff stood at
the podium in front of the creative development staff,
exhorting them to greater deedsтАФ Same shit, tiijferent day,
Darryi thought.

The girl in the chair in front of him had pretty hair. It was
long and thick and wavyтАФglossy chestnut-brown with bright
red-and-gold highlights that didn't come out of a bottle. He
imagined what all that hair would feel like, then extended
his daydream to include the entire girl. She also, he noted,
had superior legs. She crossed them and uncrossed them
and wriggled impatiently in her seat in a way that Darryl
found quite entertaining. Considerably more entertaining
than me next installment in Geoffs endless series ot point-
less meetings.

Everyone stood. A beat behind them, Darryl stood too.

12

Holly Lisle

The stand-up, sit-down crap was part of Geoffs "show-me-
you*re-with-me" style of management, and Darryl detested
the whole process. He had, however, learned that if he
bucked the flow, he got singled out as a purveyor of low
morale and earned a "non-team player" label.

'That's great," Geoff said, and granted his thralls a long
look at his horsy smile. "Now, everyone who thinks we can
meet the next quarter goals for new accountsтАФsit back
down."

Everyone sat. The girl in front of Dariyl covertly flipped
the boss the bird.

Darryl decided he liked her.

There were a few more "gosh-gee-whiz" questions from
the kiss-up contingent, and Geoff outlined his idea of rea-
sonable goals for the next weekтАФDarryl decided the man
must have been doing drugs to come up with such off-the-
wall projections. Then the meeting came to an end. Darryl
thought if he hurried, he might make it home in time to eat
supper before the food got so dried out it lost ali taste.