38The next day, Harry was off to Los Angeles for more meetings and golf with his larger investors. Kate was more certain than ever that he traveled with a very personal assistant on these trips. Maybe more than one. She was also sure the trips involved s*x parties to help persuade the rich old guys to climb aboard, literally, the Hill Express, to more riches and more fun along the way. She hadn’t actually asked him if that was the general agenda for these sales trips. She didn’t need to, since the same thing happened in the upper spheres of the real estate trade, where the really major properties changed hands.
Parsons & Sheffield weren’t involved in that, um, end of the business. But Cora Sheffield, Mr. Sheffield’s widow, who handled the hugely profitable Maui branch of the firm, was in
