Osborne’s focused, intense, driving personality.
She’d only been working for them at the Aquatic Center for a week, but it hadn’t even taken her a day to realize how hard they both worked and how much effort it took to make the seemingly smooth-flowing system function. Children and adults arrived for swimming lessons and diving lessons, all with their various instructors. Serious swimmers carried out their training. People recovering from injuries, and the elderly with problems like arthritis, attended classes and completed their exercises in the hydrotherapy pool. Retirees and pregnant women did water aerobics. Fitness enthusiasts worked out at the gym, schools held swimming carnivals in the main pool, teams trained for diving in the diving pool, and an endless stream of visitors and families came to splash around and have fun. Keeping such a diverse lot of customers all happy and entertained at once, with their attendant lifeguards, instructors, and trainers, was just as complicated as preparing an army to invade a foreign country, she reckoned.
It explained why Osborne’s desk was always buried under a pile of paperwork and why he tended to be grumpy. There were a lot of different interest groups to keep content, something almost impossible to do with so many conflicting interests.
Having the senior citizens gentle exercise classes on at the same time as infant learn-to-swim classes was a stroke of rostering genius. The babies and seniors got on well together, and it meant the seniors, who tended to move slowly in the change rooms, could take as long as they needed, as the moms chatted around the baby change tables while they dressed their infants. He deserved a gold star for thinking up that idea. And she knew exactly where to put it, too! She giggled. Fat chance. Osborne and Jordan were perfectly partnered to each other. They really did complement each other and make each other happy. She’d seen the way Osborne’s face lit up when Jordan walked into his office, even though Jordan almost always came to collect Osborne at lunchtime.
Kendra sighed. She rather fancied them both. They weren’t just eye candy. Their complementary personalities appealed to her, too. Well tough. I need to spend more time checking out the men in the gym, and the lifeguards. Some of them are mighty easy on the eyes, too.
Chapter Four
“What do you think of the waterslide?” Jordan asked Kendra.
He’d been standing just outside her office for two or three minutes, but she was completely focused on what she was doing and hadn’t noticed him yet. He tried not to smile at the little jump she gave when he spoke.
“Hi, Jordan. I’m sorry. I didn’t see you arrive. The waterslides? The inflatables? The kids love them. I’ve had to order more wristbands for them already, and the desk staff said the passes for them were selling like hotcakes.”
“No, not the inflatables. The real waterslide.”
“Oh, I haven’t been on it. I didn’t even know it was there until I found the splash-down pool one night when I was walking around. I guess I don’t look up at the roof very much.”
“You haven’t been on it? That’s sacrilege. Osborne busted a gut getting that designed, developed, and installed.” Jordan was only partly joking. Osborne had been very invested in it, and even though to run it required three lifeguards at a time, it still made a decent profit.
“It’s a definite hit with the older children. They all want to get wristbands that give them three turns on it, instead of just one,” Kendra said. When she smiled, like now, she was truly beautiful. Her hazel eyes sparkled, her face lit up, and her hands were waving in the air as she explained what she as talking about. She became an incredibly enticing picture.
Down boy! Jordan silently instructed his cock. “I’ll meet you at the waterslide at five forty and take you for a few trips down it,” he said to Kendra.
“And have a thousand kids laughing at