Chapter #1 Fresh Start “Mr. Meadows? Christian? Young man…” Tap, tap! Christian looked up from the visitor’s couch, startled. The university president’s executive assistant, Doreen, glared at him, all impatient eyes and thin lips, her arm stretched across her desk, and her testily tapped ink pen aimed at his chest. He’d been lost in thought, admiring the dappled pattern of light reflected in the textured glass of the president’s outer office door. It had been that or die of boredom while he waited to be called into the inner office. He’d gotten there on time, but had been ...