Chapter Four
How Milly Came Into My Life
It was a filthy night in a Northern City: cold, dark and the wind was blowing-in from the East; bad-news in this location. Then, of course, it was raining, as it usually is up here, and I was lost; well, a bit disoriented; no: I was lost. A day spent negotiating an extension to my Property Portfolio had left me in a bad mood: the talks had ended successfully, for me, anyway, but they’d been acrimonious and that’d left a bad taste in my mouth.
Property dealing isn’t one of the smoothest areas for business transactions because, although we’d agreed prior-terms, verbally, the other side had reneged at the last moment and jacked-up the Asking-Price by 25%. We noted: this was a nice, round number!
Now; in cases like this there are three options: you
