Chapter Two
‘And this girl standing right next to me will be my mould. Standing before you today is the base, ground zero, as unpolished as a woman can possibly be.’ He’d been rattling on about the intricacies of his program, all of which she’d read before.
‘This is it, folks. The face of ‘ “Education for the Masses.” ’ He smiled an encouraging smile to Sally, her queue to walk up the steps on the stage next to him. She was blinded by a volley of camera flashes.
Drake propped his arm about her shoulders and nudged her against him. She tried to shrug him off, but his arm remained planted over her shoulders. She glanced at him, but he remained facing forward, a bright smile plastered on his face. A bead of perspiration trickled at his hairline.
‘This girl. This monument of the people, th
