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ROMI
“And this is why I used to spend so much time at the office.” Davis cursed under his breath and tossed the phone onto the coffee table, where it skidded across the polished wood until it hit a vase of peonies. “No matter how much you pay people, they still manage to screw things up.”
“What happened?”
“The company I’m trying to sell a stake in, the buyer’s finance team found an error in the revenue forecasts. The business is solid enough, and it was a genuine mistake, but the buyer’s the nervous type and now he’s getting cold feet.”
“Do you need to go back to New York?”
“It would make life a hell of a lot easier if I could speak with him face to face.”
“Then you should go.”
Davis strode over to me, took my hands in his. “What about you? Do you want to come back early?”
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