Endless Love by Tracey Mayhew

Author:Tracey Mayhew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tracey Mayhew

24

I’m fuming.

I knew Dad’s head for business was lacking, to say the least; I knew he preferred to ignore things rather than deal with them. But this is beyond anything I could have imagined.

I haven’t slept a wink all night; in fact, I think I’m wired on coffee and my, now depleted, hidden stash of biscuits.

I glance down at the papers strewn across the desk, my blood boiling.

The accounts are a mess and have been for a while; bookings are non-existent, they’ve barely put any money aside for advertising and there’s no sign of a plan for how to attract people. To be honest, I’m not sure how they’ve managed to keep the business going. And, it hadn’t taken me long to discover they’d had to cancel their WiFi subscription; a subscription I’ve now renewed at a cheaper price.

I’m no longer surprised Dad had a heart attack; I’m just surprised it hadn’t happened sooner.

I jump as my phone rings and I spend the better part of a minute trying to find it, eventually locating it hidden beneath the sorry excuse for Dad’s accounts folder.

“Hello?” I answer, breathless after my frantic search.

“Nikki? Is that you?” Simon’s voice sounds like he’s at the other end of a tunnel.

“Who else would it be?” I snap without meaning to; my lack of sleep and the stress is starting to get to me. I wander over to the window hoping to pick up a better signal there.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean-”

“No, I’m sorry,” I interrupt. “I didn’t mean to snap. It’s just-” I glance back at the mess on the desk and sigh. “Things have taken a turn.”

“Why? Is it your dad?” he asks, his voice tinged with worry.

“No, no, nothing like that,” I assure him quickly. “It’s just… I’ve made some… discoveries.”

“Like what?” he asks warily.

“Simon, I was right; this place is in a mess,” I admit in a rush, suddenly needing to talk to someone. “The finances are all over the place; their expenses far outweigh their incoming and they have literally zero bookings for this season.”

“Okay,” he says calmly and I can almost sense him trying to figure out how to keep me from freaking out. “Is it salvagable?”

I take a moment, considering everything I’ve come to learn over the course of the last several hours. It would make perfect business sense for me to tell my parents to give this place up as a lost cause; to sell up and use the money to downsize. But, as I gaze out at the view of the fields giving way to mountains, I can almost hear my dad’s comments from last night, and I know I can’t do that. This place is their life; it’s what they know and love. “I think it’s worth a try,” I admit, despite my inner-business woman screaming at me to change my mind.

Simon doesn’t speak for a while and, just as I begin to wonder whether I’ve lost signal, he says, “Do you have a plan?”

“Not yet,” I admit, despite the fact that I already have several ideas buzzing in my head.

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