Never Wager with a Wallflower by Virginia Heath EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Virginia Heath
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NOVEMBER 1830 …
“Do we have an accord, Mr. Sinclair?”
As Lord Mallory was still talking to his back, Galahad wandered over
to the farthest window to inspect the flaking wall and allow the silence to
stretch a little bit longer. It was a tactic his grandpa had taught him back
home in New York to encourage others to nervously fill the void and bare
their hand.
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His companion didn’t disappoint.
“It would be prudent to shake on it today, Mr. Sinclair, as I doubt these
impressive buildings will take long to sell on the open market.”
Gal rapped the most precarious-looking crack on the wall with his
knuckles and, as he had hoped, a huge chunk of plaster slipped and
shattered on the floor by his feet. For good measure, he kicked the rotting
piece of baseboard he had selected on purpose beneath the leaking window
frame, and it instantly splintered into dust, too.
That was when he shook his head.
He didn’t speak. Didn’t need to. Because his wily grandpa also taught
him that sometimes no words worked far better than all the clever words in
the world. He didn’t need to turn around to know that despite the cold, the
seller was sweating as he awaited his verdict. So profusely he could almost
hear it leaking from the man’s pores.
“I could drop another five hundred, Mr. Sinclair, but that is my absolute
limit.” Which miraculously put him at the absolute top end of Gal’s. “You’ll
be getting a steal for that price. An absolute steal. I doubt you’ll find
anything any cheaper in Covent Garden.”
It might well be pushing the limits of his pocket, but a “steal” didn’t
even begin to describe it.
Three adjacent four-story town houses in the beating heart of London’s
pleasure capital, for just shy of six thousand pounds, was the deal of the
century! Neglected empty husks they might be, but the shells were as sound
as sound could be. He’d been hunting for a year for a property like this, and
everything he’d seen had been smaller, twice the price, and nowhere near as
well situated as this trio of matching beauties.
He had never been one for dancing, but while his expression remained
blandly unconvinced, inside he was twirling pirouettes while his mind was
already adjusting his original plans and drawing up new ones. Because as
his canny grandpa also often said, plans, like dreams, should never be set in
stone but rather allowed to shift with the tide, so a wise man kept them
adaptable. Especially when the opportunity exceeded all his expectations.
And boy, this did!
Three buildings! All in a a row!
Five minutes in and his whirring mind knew already that he had to
knock them all into one grand space. A unique theme for every floor.
Music, singers, dancing girls, and a bar that never ran dry on the bottom
level to attract all the fun lovers as they tumbled out of the nearby theaters.
Gaming tables on the second and third floors. Affordable and raucous on
two for the occasional gambler or those with limited budgets out for a good
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