Chapter 149: Girl Talk

Ramon Baxter slipped into the office. Harley Ashby was on the phone and didn't even notice him. He didn't interrupt. He sank onto the sofa and waited. "Candace, I run a construction company. I don't do cosmetics. How am I supposed to help you?" Harley sounded helpless. Candace and a friend had co-founded a cosmetics company. A year in, expenses outpaced income, and they couldn't keep it afloat. Her partner wanted to shut it down, figuring continuing would only burn money-a bottomless pit. The...