Chapter 1“Thank you, Mister Webster.”
“Call me Nick.”
Nick reached across the desk and shook Mr. Edmund Hawthorne’s hand, noting it was a firm, manly handshake and one that had, no doubt, closed many deals over the years.
“I’ll have my secretary email you the completed copies once I’ve finished with them. Now I have all the information I need, it won’t take me long to draw up the papers.”
Nick got up from his chair and buttoned his suit jacket.
“Ah, before you go Mr…Nick, I didn’t notice a wedding band.”
Nick hoisted his briefcase off the chair next to him. “No.” He felt a slight frown materialise. “Why do you ask?”
Hawthorne, dressed in Armani from his tanned neck to his Gucci shoes, walked to the other side of the desk, holding something in his hand.
“I want you to take this. I t
