It had been a week since I left Reese, Oregon and Harley. And it has been hard for me to stay away. It was only five in the morning over there, but I needed information from Tony. I didn’t give two shits that he probably had just fallen asleep. Most of the time Harley worked late into the night. And it was Tony’s job to keep an eye on her at all times.
“Hey, I was waiting for your call,” he said, answering on the first ring.
“What’s up?” I asked impatiently. Every day I harassed him.
“Nothing really, she’s starting to open up to me, but every time your name is brought up she gets that look like she’s upset. I asked her if she didn’t like you, but all she said was that you cut your trip short and left before her next shift. She thinks she did something wrong, but I told her that you had some important things that needed to be taken care of that came up.”
“Thanks, Tony.” I felt bad that she was upset because of me, but I couldn’t tell her the truth until she was legal.
“Anything for you. Have you decided who replaces her once you steal her away or are you going to just look for a new hire?”
“Actually, Denise is looking for a change of scenery.”
“Oh, really. Well is there anything else you need? I’m beat.”
“No. Thanks, though. Let me know what’s going on and keep any dicks away from her.”
“I’ll do my best.”
“That’s all I ask.”
I hung up with him and prepared for my day. I was going to have to deal with my brothers. Everything for the company went through them too, and they saw the paperwork. I wasn’t worried, more like annoyed. It was my plan, my decision. I didn’t know if it was my age, but they always double checked my property choices.
It was eight and I was sitting in my office when my big brothers barged through the door. Joseph and Julian were about the same height except Joseph could probably bench press me lately. He’d been at the gym constantly and I wondered if he was sexually frustrated. Julian and I were almost twins except he had darker features and didn’t know how to lighten up. We were all about two years apart. Like clockwork, our mother popped us out. Joseph was twenty-eight and Julian twenty-six.
“What can I do for you assholes this morning?”
“You can tell us why you closed the deal without consulting us?” Joseph asked, giving me a sharp look on his overly strong face.
“I consulted you when I brought up the idea of purchasing it and we agreed on it.” I wasn’t afraid of my brothers. We owned the company equally and we never made a bad decision where the company was concerned.
“Yeah, but you didn’t give us a chance to look at the offer.”
I had to shake my head at them. Before I left I made it clear that if we could get it for under the market value and the property was worth it, that I was jumping on it before anyone else thought to snag it and we were stuck in a bidding war. “I told you what the bidding price was. I matched it.”
It was Julian’s turn to give me shit. “Exactly, since when do you ever match a deal?”
They were right in a way. I’d always discussed some aspect of the deals before I followed through with the purchase. I was the acquisitions specialist here. “Since it was still 200K under our figures.”
“What else was driving you? Did you even spend enough time there looking at the properties?” Joe asked, tipping his chin at me.
“Yes, I did. Thank you very much. Why are you both breathing down my neck? This deal included three large areas of land, including the possibility to build twenty-five stories high.”
“I suppose that’s good.”
“I just got a notice that the amusement park is ahead of schedule and will be ready for the summer of 2018.”
“Really?”
“Yes, and now we have the edge on all the other companies that will be trying to corner the market. So get off my damn case.”
“Okay, fine. You did good, but don’t jump on deals without clearing it with us.”
They left my office a bit annoyed with me, but I wasn’t going to tell them that I left because of Harley. I should have gotten a better look at the properties personally, but I sent a surveyor and inspector two days ago. Everything was approved for purchase and now I had to wait almost three full months to see her again.