Concealed in Death (IN DEATH #38) by J. D. Robb EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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NEGLECT COULD KILL A BUILDING BRICK BY
brick. It was, to his mind, more insidious than hurricane or
earthquake as it murdered slowly, quietly, not in rage or
passion, but with utter contempt.
Or perhaps he was being a bit lyrical about a structure
that had served no purpose other than housing rats and
junkies for more than a dozen years.
But with vision, and considerable money, the old building, sagging its
shoulders in what had once been Hell’s Kitchen, would stand strong again,
and with purpose.
Roarke had vision, and considerable money, and enjoyed using both as
he pleased.
He’d had his eye on the property for more than a year, waiting like a cat
at a mousehole for the shaky conglomerate that owned it to crumble a little
more. He’d had his ear to that mousehole as well, and had listened to the
rumors of rehab or razing, of additional funding and complete bankruptcy.
As he’d anticipated, the reality fell between, and the property popped on
the market. Still he’d waited, biding his time, until the fanciful—to his mind
—asking price slid down to a more reasonable level.
And he’d waited a bit more yet, knowing the troubles of the group that
owned it would surely make them more amenable to an offer well below
even that level—with some additional sweating time.
The buying and selling of property—or anything else for that matter—
was a business, of course. But it was also a game, and one he relished
playing, one he relished winning. He considered the game of business
nearly as satisfying and entertaining as stealing.
Once he’d stolen to survive, and then he’d continued when it had become
another kind of game because, hell, he was damn good at it.
But his thieving days lay behind him, and he rarely regretted stepping out
of the shadows. He might have built the foundations of his fortune in those
shadows, but he added to them, wielded the power of them now in full light.
When he considered what he’d given up, and what he’d gained by doing
so, he knew it to be the best deal of his life.
Now he stood in the rubble of his newest acquisition, a tall man with a
lean and disciplined body. He wore a perfectly tailored suit of charcoal gray
and a crisp shirt the color of peat smoke. He stood beside the spark plug of
Pete Staski, the job boss, and the curvaceous Nina Whitt, his head architect.
Workers buzzed around, hauling in tools, shouting out to each other over
the grinding music already playing, as Roarke had heard it grind on
countless other construction sites on and off planet.
“She’s got good bones,” Pete said around a wad of blackberry gum. “And
I ain’t going to argue about the work, but I gotta say, one last time, it’d be
cheaper to tear her down, start from scratch.”
“Maybe so,” Roarke agreed, and the Irish wove through the words. “But
she deserves better than the wrecking ball. So we’ll take her down to those
bones, and give her what Nina here has designed.”
“You’re the boss.”
“I am indeed.”
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