Never Enough by Harold Robbins

Author:Harold Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

IV

Leeman wanted to hear about the deal, but he also had something more in mind. He invited Dave to a lunch in a suite in the Waldorf, where he said other investors would be present.

No others were present. Dave was not quite sure how to take that. He accepted drinks and hors d’oeuvres and stared down at the street from the windows, wondering what Bob Leeman had in mind. The man did nothing without a purpose.

“Somebody is here to see you,” said Leeman eventually.

He opened the door to a bedroom. A striking young woman came out, dressed in black: tiny minidress with deep décolletage and skirt halfway between her knees and crotch, black sheer panty hose, and shiny stiletto-heeled shoes. She was small, as he had not forgotten, but she had distinctly matured since the last time he saw her.

“Remember her, Dave?”

“Janelle …”

“All grown-up,” she said.

She was in fact, grown-up. Twenty-four years old now and no longer the teenager Leeman had given Dave in 1983, Janelle had developed into an extraordinarily beautiful young woman.

She still worked for Leeman, though—apparently.

“Guess what she does now,” said Leeman. “You said you wanted her to have an education and were willing to pay for it. I said I’d take care of that, and I did. Janelle graduated from MIT with a degree in mathematics. She’s a systems designer. She’s a hell of a lot smarter than I used to think she was.”

“Systems designer … ?”

“You know the difference between an architect and a carpenter?” she asked, casually pouring herself a drink of Black Label scotch. “It’s the same as the difference between a computer systems designer and a programmer.”

“You’ve done damned well,” said Dave.

“Well … he asked me to meet you again. I guess I owe him that much.”

“She knows the name Hermann Reitsch,” said Leeman.

The meeting began to be meaningful. “What do you know of him?” Dave asked.

“He’s an eccentric computer guru,” said Janelle. “He’s developed the system you’re asking Bob to invest in, and of course he’s desperately short of money. From all I know of the thing, it just might work. It just might.”

“In which case, it’s worth the risk, she tells me,” said Leeman.

Janelle crossed her legs. She was no more concerned about modesty than she had been when she was presented to him as a stark-naked teenaged girl. Her legs were slender and sleek, and she exposed them all the way to her hips. She took a pack, of cigarettes and a lighter from her purse and lit a cigarette.

“She’s developed a bad habit,” said Leeman.

“I’ll stop smoking when someone makes it worth my while,” she said nonchalantly.

“Do you think Hermann Reitsch would let her see his idea?” Leeman asked.

Dave raised his chin high. “It could be arranged, I suppose.”

“Okay. Why don’t you do that? And … uh … I’ve got things to do. Why don’t you two enjoy the bar and the buffet? I’ll talk to you later.”

Leeman left, abruptly.

“Well …” said Janelle. “I guess we should renew an old friendship.

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