Chapter 32

I was feeling a little more chained to my desk than usual today by virtue of the fact that moving anywhere else was less than comfortable. I'd improved a little over the past day but I was still hobbling everywhere and had basically camped out with my foot up on a spare desk chair I'd stolen from the staff room working on lesson plans.

I hadn't seen Kathryn all day, which was a bit surprising. Even more surprising was that when I did it was as she was stalking past my office in skintight workout clothes. I thought she might have bypassed me altogether but she must've noticed me out of the corner of her eye because she skidded to a stop and backtracked to stick her head in the door. "Alex, there you are! How are you?"

"Better," I managed, my eyes fixed determinedly on Kathryn's rather than anywhere else about her person. "Thanks. Sorry, yeah, I've been hiding a bit today I guess."

"That's all right - are you sure you're okay? Has the swelling gone down?"

"Mm, yeah, mostly," I said with a smile and a nod. "I'm still limping but it's really not bad."

"Good, good." Kathryn leaned on the doorframe, tugging a little at her lycra top. "I'd hate to get in trouble for maiming an employee, so the quicker you heal, the better."

"Well, it looks as though you're exercising for the both of us, so..."

"Have to burn off some energy before the meeting this afternoon or I might strangle someone," she replied, making a face. "So, gym on my lunch break it is."

"Well," I said, still fighting against the urge drawing my eyes away from Kathryn's face, "good luck with that. I guess I'll have to satisfy myself with a stressball or something."

"Anything I can bring you?"

"A crosstrainer and a protein shake," I deadpanned.

She smirked and pushed herself off the door, bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet a few times. "I'll see what I can do."

Oh. Dear. God. "You, um. Do that."

 

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