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"Thank you" Duncan sounded as if Grant had paid him a compliment "Noe can focus on what you really want"
"No, I’ what he needed from Duncan, but not that bad "I’ll send the contract back tomorrow"
Grant slid into his coat He slaoodbye
"No one knows you better than I do You’ll settle for funding, but that’s not all you want"
Grant’s soles squeaked on the floor as he turned and with each step away So raceful exit, not that it le word
"Tenure"
Grant knew the scene behind hi slu Duncan straddled the bench, leaning forward His hands gripped one end of the bench His arms braced his torso as if he were about to lift into a handstand He presented the illusion of being perfectly relaxed while his T-shirt exposed every muscle of his torso
"Where?"
"With me Saain He forced hiined
"Isn’t that overkill?" Grant glared down at Duncan He had so few chances to do that "With tenure, hoill you get rid of me when you don’t need s parallel to the bench His sraffiti "You know, you get older, you realize the first guy you first bounced ideas off of has ruined you for everyone else since So you change" His hands thuainst the bench as he walked hiuy wants"
Duncan straightened into a handstand, lowered his legs, then stood upright on the bench facing one end He backflipped off the bench landing to one side The control required to avoid crashing into the lockers was inti His hands spread in front him as if to ask, "Well?"
The day Duncan didn’t look confident was the day the world would end However, the years had abraded the saze had always been inquisitive, but it now also yearned Grant had walked away fro Duncan, but this one taunted hi convinced hiripped his gyht to cool Duncan’s ardor
"For a start, the university will rad students"
Not only did he want the university to fund his students, but he wanted enough funding fro responsibilities No reason why undergrads should suffer Grant set down his gy and for what felt like minutes detailed his drea
"What?" Grant felt sucker punched "My demands aren’t reasonable"