Robert (Fallen Angel Series Book 1) by Tracie Podger

Author:Tracie Podger [Podger, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

It took a couple of years to really lose the crap and turn around the rest. We formed various companies, we paid as little tax as we could legally get away with and we made money, lots of it. Once a week I sat down with Joe and told him what we were doing, it was important to me that he was in the loop. In the meantime, he enjoyed his semi retirement. Evelyn was grateful to us, we had finally got the old man to relax a little, to potter around his garden and enjoy his wealth.

It didn’t come without problems. We had a couple of new gangs on the street trying to muscle in before we were ready. Travis and I still got into the occasional fight, settling some dispute or other, showing who was still in charge.

We spent the first year updating the apartments, redecorating and with a little coercion, removed the low rent tenants and replaced them with better ones. The only one I was a little sad to see go was old Mrs Wren and her cats. We made sure we found somewhere for her to live. Not too far from the apartments was a low rise block where the residents were mainly elderly and were able to keep an eye out on her. She had a small back yard, somewhere for her cats to roam.

We saw nothing of Joey but we kept track of him for a while. He had decided selling drugs was going to make his fortune, but he was one man, no back up against some serious competition. I was often approached by one dealer or another and kept informed of what he was doing. They did this because I was still someone to be respected. I allowed them on my streets to sell their shit. It went against what I believed, but I could control who and what went on. People would always want drugs, we were in a low income environment and no matter whether their kids went hungry, the people living there still had money for drugs.

We had not lost everything we did, there was still the odd personal debt to collect but I wasn’t involved on a street level anymore. I had grown up a lot in the past couple of years. A powerful man I was always told, although still only early twenties. At twenty-two I earned my first million dollars with many more to follow over the next ten years. That first million was a huge milestone in my life. I was no longer hungry, no longer poor, I wore the best clothes, owned the best cars and now I wanted somewhere to live. It was time to move out of Joe’s, to leave the comfort of the only real home I’d ever known.

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Although we kept the small office, a reminder of where we started, a development opportunity come up and we moved. It was to be a purpose built complex in the heart

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