Chapter Eighteen – 18 years 9 months before the collapse
“How did it go?” Annabel asked, hearing Jim come in.
“What a day!”
“Tell me all about it,” she said, taking his coat and encouraging him to sit down.
“First, I went to the court for the hearing, but the judge whom they had assigned to the case was ill so they assigned it to another judge, which meant they’ll reschedule the hearing.”
“I can’t believe it.”
“Then I went to see Garcia, who has nothing for us, so our only hope is Elijah. It’s possible that the Government might let us use the funds as part of their job creation programme, but we still need Elijah to agree. Isa will speak with him.”
“Not all grievous news then.”
“No, and then I went to the dentist, which was terrible because I went to Dr Singh.”
“Why didn’t you go
