Moonlight Dance Academy (Hotshot Book 5) by Mike Faricy

Author:Mike Faricy [Faricy, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Credit River Publishing
Published: 2021-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Hub had been waiting the better part of the night for Val’s call that he was back in Tampa. Lately, he’d been in a frame of mind where he was half-expecting Val to tell him it was finally time to call it quits. It seemed to be getting harder and harder for Val to move items, to make any decent money. Quite honestly, with Hub’s nest egg nicely intact and growing, maybe it wasn’t the worst idea just to give it a rest for a while, take a break or maybe even shut down altogether.

After hiding behind the door from naked Shelly a while back, a break didn’t sound all that bad. Not only did Hub have a nice little nest egg. In truth, he was sitting on more money than he ever had in his life. For once, he wasn’t living from paycheck to paycheck.

He drove over as soon as Val called. Before he could say a word, Val handed him a cold beer and nine hundred dollars, cash. The payoffs had been getting leaner every week. Unbeknownst to Hub, Val’s half was twelve hundred, but that was beside the point. Two months ago, they both would have received four or five times what they had tonight.

“Val, what do you think about giving it a rest? You said it was getting tough to move stuff. Maybe we should look somewhere else besides Atlanta. Maybe we flooded the market up there, and we need to let the sales catch up. Or, maybe folks figure, since they got us over a barrel, they can lowball us.”

“You may be right, Hub. It might be a good idea to let the demand in Atlanta catch up with the inventory we got here.” Val leaned against his kitchen counter, pointing at Hub with his beer can. “But, we could still continue to build our inventory, don’t you think?”

“Build our inventory? Those folks up there in Atlanta, they don’t need to buy today. They know for a fact that you’ll be back up there in forty-eight or seventy-two hours. There’s no need for them to buy today because you’re always back in there tomorrow, begging to get the low dollar.”

“Look, Hub, we’ve been through this before. Just for safety’s sake, we’ve got to move this stuff out of Florida. Otherwise, we really risk getting caught. We think we’re running below their radar, but we don’t really know that for sure. That’s why we’re watching things right now, man, while at the same time, we work at maintaining our inventory level.”

“Val, let’s just think about it. It’s been sweet, and it can be sweet again. I just think maybe we give it a rest for a couple of weeks. That’s all I’m saying.” Hub was in Val’s refrigerator, hunting down another beer. “You got anything besides this lite stuff?”

“You’re just wigging out after the surprise at the Schmidt house. Shit happens, man.”

Hub shook his head. “No, I’ve decided I’m not going in anywhere for the next few weeks.

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