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Normally, this would be perfect for heading out and maybe seeing what the local talent has to offer, but for some reason, I’m not in the mood.
Not because of a particularly complicated woman, but because I need to pack a lot into a day.
The company BNK comes up on my screen. BNK Enterprises are into acquiring all kinds of things. They like a variety of pies. And it seems they’ve bought into Alpine.
Which makes them bigger than I originally thought.
Because this isn’t a new thing. What is new is their active involvement.
From what I’ve got this BNK makes money from investing in companies and staying mostly hands-off. There are some things they get involved with. Tech is one, but energy such as Alpine is not.
I frown. They’re into a lot of fossil fuels and more cutting-edge clean energy.
“Hedging bets.”
I’ve got an appointment with the CFO tomorrow, along with a rep from the Edgemere branch of Alpine.
I’m hoping I’ll find something interesting I can use.
Should be a fascinating day.
Frustrating is what it is. At seven p.m., I’m in the hotel bar in downtown Edgemere.
Typically, people who are trying to get their hands on something want to fling open doors and talk. But it seems the attorney from Norhill Tops closes doors instead of opening them.
Andrew Kinkaid, the man I spoke to at BNK, was polite and friendly and didn’t say a thing except the company he worked for invests in a lot of things.
I just don’t like any of it. Not the fact that something like BNK is involved, not that Alpine has other offices in other states . . . new ones. Is that it? The fact that they’re quietlynew and expanding and making whatever deals with other companies?
To me, it’s both how businesses I deal with run and don’t run.
Companies expand. They grow. They shrink. They turn from regional to state to even national.
But they don’t tend to do it so closed-lipped, so unhappy to deal with someone from the place they’re trying to acquire land in. Somewhere they want to build and make money from.
And they tend, when they’re doing well enough to expand, to give up on something that seems small in that nationwide scheme.
I’ve got questions. More than I had. But at least those questions all have paths I can explore.
Fuck, I’d love to say it’s moot that the will puts a hard stop to things. But it doesn’t because they seem to want to find a way around it.
“Is this seat taken?”
I turn.
A woman sidles up, blonde, hot, and in a dress that won’t quit. I’m interested because I’m still able to breathe, but she lacks something, so the interest is pure eye candy and nothing more.
“Not at all.” I gesture to it with my hand. “Please sit. Drink?”
“Yes, please.” Those long, blackened eyelashes flutter over quintessential bedroom eyes.
I buy her a drink and chat until I can politely escape.
When I’m back in my room, alone, I go over things I have to do tomorrow while raiding the mini bar.
The fact I didn’t get anywhere today tells me I need to keep a closer eye on things.
I grab my phone and call Lawson.
