The story is about a group of people, an actual place, and a dream. While having a none too subtle dig at society in general. This is a work of pure fiction. None of the characters are real people, nor do they represent real people. It is a slow burn, a lot of romance and some gratuitous sex for those who need to get off on it. It is based in Australia so I have used local language. There is some Italian and French conversations, so if you want to really become attached to the characters I strongly recommend you use a google translator. It will help with the flow of the conversations. As I use the Queen's English, I will apologise in advance to my American friends for the correct spelling of some words.
Some of the place names are correct.
There is no underage sex involved.
Part 4 -- A Sudden Windfall.
I thought to myself, what are they doing up so early. I dragged myself out of bed and wandered into my on suite, hidden behind a full framed mirrored doorway. Freshened myself up, put on some morning clothes and went into my office. Checked my schedule for the day, nothing important, I saw an email from Erica and another from Anita. Opening them in order of arrival, Erica's was just an update on two other ongoing projects, as per normal, on time and on budget she told me. It's nice to be kept up to date.
Anita alerted me to a couple of properties likely to be coming on the market in the next month or so. Also some interesting new development on the other side of the river, the 600 million dollar housing investment stage 1 was completed now and on the market. I picked up the phone and rang her.
A voice machine told me the office was closed and to contact Anita on her mobile number. I cursed under my breath and rang it and got a surprise when a different but familiar voice answered the phone. "Anita Reynolds phone."
"Hello you, what are you doing answering her phone this early in the morning?" I asked Erica. She laughed back at me.
"Your name came up on the screen so I knew it was safe to answer it." She explained.
"That's good you are there. Glad you patched everything up after the other day. Nothing like make up sex to help heal a wounded ego." I told her.
She laughed
"It was rather nice." She exclaimed.
"Ask her to give me a call when you two are finished with your morning duties OK."
"I will, and we have. We both have a busy day ahead of us. So tell me Kath, what's with this business meeting at number 7. I thought we put that in the too hard basket?"
I quickly explained what was happening, and for us to see what the numbers look like. "I wouldn't expect too much to come from it." I told her.
"What does your brother think of the family owning an exclusive lesbian club?" She asked.
I replied that as long as we keep the word lesbians and sex on site out of any proposal and documents, we should be right. "Besides, how often does he attend our business meetings?"
"Sex on site!" She exclaimed almost yelling, I could hear the excitement in her voice. "What, don't tell me you're going into the bordello business now?" she wanted to know, as I heard Anita in the background, "Who is having sex on site?" She asked inquisitively. "Hey that's my phone, who are you talking to?
"It's Kathy." She explained.
I heard a mumbled conversation, a hand must have been put over the mouth piece. Then Anita came onto the phone. "Good Morning Kathleen, sorry about my inexperienced office girl, you know how hard it is to get good staff these days." I heard some other garbled comment that was undistinguishable coming from the back ground. Followed by some laughter.
"How are you Anita?" I enquired, "All sated now are we?" I joked.
"She says way too much I think." I could hear the smile in her voice. "But yes I am, thank you for asking."
"That's good then." I told her, then asked "So what's the news on the River Front development that might interest me?"
"Remember when it was first announced you asked me to keep an eye on Ambrose Street, where the family slipway was." She reminded me.