Things went downhill from there.
The training was more of an interactive marketing pitch to sell the Pulse line to the drivers, but if Nikki was hoping to whip up everyone into a gung-ho frenzy, she failed miserably. Vic didn’t know if it was because he came in last or if she just had it in for him, but every time she wanted a volunteer and no one raised their hands (and no one ever did), she called on him. That always got a laugh out of Kyle, who seemed oblivious when Vic growled in warning. God, that guy’s laugh got on his nerves!
By the time they stopped for lunch, the migraine Vic had had the day before was back with a vengeance. It pounded behind his right eye in time with the beating of his heart, and it spiked whenever Kyle let out one of those annoying guffaws. Every time his cow
