(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177: 14 flights of stairs

The second class went smoothly, and as 3 pm approached, Kellen felt exhaustion fill him. Brent had left him to go do his round of guiding, after Kellen had shoved him full of shakes. And after taking a few moments for himself, he set to work.

He only had two hours before he had to go meet up with Rhys for his guiding session with Taylor. So he’d better put his head down and get to work.

Kellen had already reached out to all of the Guiding Centers in the morning, and by mid afternoon, he’d had varying responses.

Of course, Guiding Center B had responded back first, and quickly at that. They were very straightforward in their willingness to help out. Guiding Center A had sent a very lengthy response, full of fancy words, and several insults, but at the end had also agreed to help.

Guiding Center C had outright refused to help, and Guiding Center D and E hadn’t gotten back to Kellen yet. Kellen didn’t know why Guiding Center C had refused to help. As far as he knew, they had never had any issues with each other, but he’d have to wait to look into it more.

Honestly, Kellen was a little worried. He hadn’t wanted to rely on the top two Guiding Centers, and had wanted to spread out the recruitment. He didn’t think that any of the Guiding Centers were inferior to the other, well, except Guiding Center A, but that was just his personal feelings.

Well, it wasn’t a big deal. Kellen was still going to go in person to all of the Guiding Centers since he always found that that left a better impression, and he liked to talk face to face. The email was more of a testing of the waters. It was unfortunate that Guiding Center C was hostile to him, but hopefully he would be able to convince them that he had no bad intentions. After all, he had no idea why they didn’t like him.

Beyond worrying about the Guiding Centers responding back to him, he was also working on the rough drafts of the contracts he planned to present to Pamela for her to confirm. He’d have to get quotes from her and Casper before he could head out tomorrow, and was hoping he’d be able to swing by the conference room before he headed home.

But Kellen got so distracted by making his contracts, he forgot about the time, until it was too late.

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Kellen rushed into the guiding room, panting heavily since he had sprinted down the hallway. Taylor jerked, nearly jumping out of her seat as the door hit the wall. While the Captain, who had been sitting with his shirt off, medical pads on, and legs crossed raised his head with a smile. He was clearly on his phone working away, and that only made Kellen feel worse.

"Ah. You’re late, Mr. Woods." His tone was lightly chastising, and Kellen took a second to catch his breath after he closed the door behind him. He rested with his hands on his knees for a second.

"Sorry Captain. Brent grabbed me last minute to discuss something related to the gate, and then the elevators were full. I took the stairs to try to get here on time. It won’t happen again." Both Taylor and the Captain stared at Kellen. Each had equal amounts of shock on their faces.

"You what?" Taylor demanded, and Kellen sighed, straightening up before heading towards Rhys. pulling off his jacket as he did so. Taylor was blinking at him like she’d never seen him before.

"I took the stairs. Again, I’m sorry you two waited for me." He told them both with a smile. Rhys’ smile fell from his face and he sighed. He ran his hand over his face, before turning his gaze towards Kellen.

"You don’t need to overexert yourself, Mr. Woods. You could have just sent a text. It’s the end of the day, and neither one of us is going to be angry at you if you got caught up in the end of the day rush." Taylor nodded along with the Captain’s words, while Kellen continued to undress.

"Well, you might feel that way, but I hate being late. There weren’t that many stairs either. It wasn’t like I ran here from the conference room level. I was in the Guiding Division before this." Taylor’s gaze when she looked at Kellen was blank, and he wasn’t sure what that meant. The Captain sighed again.