Chapter 10
Stacy was impressed—if Darian had been even half the troublemaker he himself was back in high school, Dean Drucker must be one hell of a motivational speaker to turn him around so completely. A pang of jealousy stabbed through him. No one ever pulled him aside to try and straighten him out. His mother was always too busy, and his step-dad? Yeah, right. No one even seemed to care. “So that’s all it took then?” he asked. “That little pep talk got you back on the right track?”
With a laugh, Darian admitted, “I still screw up sometimes, don’t get me wrong. Dean just helped put everything in perspective, that’s all. Got me thinking about what I wanted out of life and what I had to do—and not do—to get it.”
“Well I’d say it worked.” Stacy counted Darian’s accomplishments off on the
