Daddy's Secret Deal by J.D. Fox

Author:J.D. Fox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

​Olivier stepped into the restaurant where he would be meeting one of his associates and reminded himself not to think about what Mathilde and Genevieve would be doing at the house. It was a Friday night, a good time for meeting with people casually, and normally Olivier would have given his employee the night off to go out and enjoy a social life; but he’d needed to finalize some details before he could invite his American partner to enter the country and finish the deal. When he’d left the house, Genevieve had been making popcorn and a few other snacks for her evening with Mathilde. Much though Olivier wanted to finish up the final details on his end for the scheme he was involved in, there had been part of him that had wanted nothing more than to cancel his dinner and stay in for the night, watching movies and eating snacks with the two women in his life.

​Instead, he nodded to the waiter who approached him at the door and gave the name of the man he was meeting there: Richard Petit. “Ah yes, he is already here,” the waiter told him, nodding. “I will bring you to the table.”

​Olivier followed the waiter through the dining room towards the table where his associate waited, and he thought about the plan he had in mind. Petit, Caron, and Morbier were all essential to the initial investment that he needed to make the scheme work. They could come out even—or maybe even ahead—at the end of it, unlike some of the other investors they were attracting, who would all end up losing money. It was a complicated situation to orchestrate, but Olivier was confident that he would pull it off.

​“Bonsoir, Olivier,” Richard said, rising to shake his hand. Olivier returned the gesture and seated himself in the chair the waiter pulled out for him, accepting a menu from the younger man.

​“Bonsoir, Richard. Tout va bien avec ta famille?” Richard had a much-younger wife who had given him two children, a boy and a girl.

​“Yes, everything is well with the family. Thank you,” Richard replied. They exchanged small talk as they perused the menus, and Olivier considered what he would have for dinner alongside the way he was going to convince Richard to pull the trigger and commit to the investment.

​The waiter arrived, and Olivier put in his order: pastis to begin with the restaurant’s curried mussels, and the duck breast with mashed potatoes for his main course. Richard chose a salad with chèvre chaud for his first course, taken with a negroni cocktail, and the restaurant’s steak-frites with melted shallot sauce for his main course. Both men took the red wine that the waiter suggested and ordered a carafe of water for the table.

​“So, where do we stand on the new venture?” Olivier sat back in his seat a little as they waited for their first courses to arrive, meeting Richard’s gaze steadily. The other man half-shrugged.

​“I have actually been

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