My Two Husbands by Amanda Aksel

Author:Amanda Aksel [Aksel, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

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It’s barely seven o’clock when Jake walks in the kitchen. I’ve just dumped a container of pad thai on my plate. Maybe Kyle was right.

“Hey, what are you doing home?” I ask with a slight smile.

“I want to talk to you about something.” He’s lit up. Not in a drunk sort of way, but like he’s excited about something. I haven’t seen this look on his face for months.

“Okay, what is it?” I take a seat at the table, and he joins me.

“You know how Tim moved his business to Vegas?” he asks with an eager tone.

“Yeah.” Tim is Jake’s old boss. When Vegas started expanding years ago, he saw an opportunity and went for it. I’m pretty sure he has an eight-figure business going now.

“Well, he needs some help. Help he can trust. He wants to hire my company to supplement until the development is finished. The money would be ridiculous.”

Wow, he’s actually sober. And excited. “That sounds like an intriguing opportunity, but how would that even work?” Please don’t say we have to move to Vegas. Because there’s no way I’m giving up my business.

“I’d move some of my best guys out there. I’d have to be gone for a couple of months at first, but then I only need to drop in every few weeks once I get them set up.”

I wish he could get this excited about something closer to home. “So you’d be gone for two months?” What am I? A military wife?

“Yeah, but I’d come and visit. You could come to Vegas. The time would fly by like that.” He snaps his fingers.

“Okay, but how are you going to afford to move these guys and hire new ones?”

He scoots his chair closer to mine. “Well, that’s the tricky part.”

“Tricky?” I don’t like the sound of that.

“Kind of. I was hoping that I could borrow the money we’ve been saving for your commercial property.”

My stomach tightens, and I almost choke on my noodles. “What? You need all of it?” I’ve been saving for years to buy a commercial building and start my own real estate firm. Jake’s been contributing too since we got married, and now I’m so close to having enough.

He takes my hand, and I feel like it’s the first time we’ve touched in weeks. “Yes but I just need to borrow it. The return is going to be four times as much. So it’s not even so much a loan as an investment. A short term investment.”

“How long?”

“I’m not really sure. But based on my conversation with Tim, it should be within a year.”

I chew on my bottom lip. This is a lot to process. Jake’s basically just told me that he wants to take my money and run. “Won’t you lose business here?”

He shakes his head. “No. Dave can run things while I’m gone. It’ll be fine. With the new hires, we can still get all of our scheduled jobs done.” Jake’s been mentoring Dave to be his right hand. The guy means well, but I’m not sure he’s capable of supervising in Jake’s absence.

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