Chapter 7 – Doug
I was uncomfortable with the idea of going to Vlad’s island home for a week. He was bidding on a city contract, what would he want in return? I was afraid of the potential conflict of interest. We’d just had a meeting about it, and I didn’t want to get fired. Worse, I didn’t want to commit a crime, or to be honest, I didn’t want to get caught committing a crime.
I knew what Vlad was up to. He wanted to bribe me with a free week at his island home. The only thing I could do was to offer to pay but it might offend him. He was a scary man and he didn’t seem like the type of person I should be insulting.
Why did he want this crappy little contract anyway? It was fine for Abraham who ran a crappy little company. It didn’t seem worth it for a bigger company like Vlad’s, who a
