Covington, Cara - Love Under Two Honchos [Lusty, Texas 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Cara Covington

Covington, Cara - Love Under Two Honchos [Lusty, Texas 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington [Covington, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-02-08T22:57:13.132000+00:00


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“I know there’s a lot of oil there,” Douglas Evercroft said. “The geology supports it, and my surveyors assure me that it’s a site that will prove very lucrative.” He sat back and puffed out a breath. “Wanting my money all up front may seem extreme, but compared to the money you’ll make with all those barrels of good Texas oil, you’ll feel like you stole it.”

Josh grinned. He had to give Evercroft credit. The man certainly did his best to come out on top, no matter what.

They’d been negotiating off and on for several weeks and through that time had been haggling over the price of the land and the terms of payment.

“Since you’re convinced we’ll all be swimming in crude, you shouldn’t mind that we pay half the agreed upon price up front, and turn the rest into a percentage of the barrels pumped as the oil is extracted.”

Doug returned Josh’s smile. “Now, son. I’ve been around the block a time or two. Back when your Uncle Carson was just getting a feel for that chair you’re sitting in now, I knew how things worked in this town. Hell, I started out as a roughneck, worked my way up from nothing. I’ve scrubbed my share of crude out from under my fingernails, that’s a fact. There’s nothing to stop you from making that deal with me and then letting the site go to reserve. The oil don’t get pumped, I don’t get paid. Especially now that you’ve got that fancy environmentalist from back east sniffing all around. Likely you’ll be putting a lot of stuff on hold till she goes back to Washington.”

Josh sat back and studied the man for a moment. One thing he’d been able to count on all his life, aside from his brother, were his instincts. Right now they were screaming at him. It rattled him to have thoughts of Penelope brought to the table, as it were.

“I don’t know where you got your information, Mr. Evercroft.” Josh sure as hell didn’t like that he had it, either. He looked over at Alex and saw his brother looked as surprised as he felt. Then he noticed that both Colt Evans and Ryder Magee had sat up straighter in their seats, focusing on Evercroft.

There’d been no progress tracing those letters, and the fact that Penelope could be a target worried him more each day. For Evercroft to even know about her, it meant someone here had leaked information to the man. Was it connected to their threat? Josh didn’t know—and he didn’t like that he didn’t know.

“The family has hired a consultant, that’s true. In light of recent events, we want to be absolutely certain that all remediated sites have been properly rehabilitated.”

He sat back and looked at his brother.

Alex leaned forward. “We have no problem whatsoever adding a clause to the contract that will allow for stiff penalties on our part if we don’t develop the site according to a timeline we can all agree upon.



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