As far as she was concerned, the evening would be totally innocent and therefore not worth mentioning anyway. Nevertheless, she took her ex-boyfriend ...to a restaurant some way out of town where they were unlikely to be seen.All through the evening, it was obvious he was expecting them to end up in bed back at his hotel. He was very attentive and flirtatious, and from time to time he would find an excuse to touch her. But the thought of infidelity never seriously crossed her mind. She still found. "The magic word was 'cash.' I closed the deal fifteen minutes after I walked in the door. The rest was paperwork."He flipped pages until he came to the negotiated number, one million, three hundred thousand. As promised, she'd brought the deal in under a million five."Look at them," she whispered.Scott glanced to the other end of the conference table."What about them?" They're dying to know who you are. You're young, good looking, and filthy rich. They're so jealous they can hardly stand. "The younger elf took a deep breath. "For gold, Eritsal. For gold you will need and I cannot take with me. You will need gold to establish a smithy and a family on Windir. For this is not to be repeated, but there are millions of refugees coming our way from the collapse of government in the central reaches of Syrisia. No small few of those refugees are carrying a plague, and several more will be diseased from overcrowding in camps, fouled water, poor food, and worse. All of this will wash up. "I'm surprised those girls moved out, Jim, especially Dee. I thought for sure she'd want to stay close to her sugar daddy." No, this was all planned by the three of us, right from the beginning. They were only going to stay until they had enough saved up to get their own place. I think they had enough saved to get the apartment three or four months back, but it was better for them to stay until they'd gotten enough reserve in case something unexpected happens." Katie thinks those girls were.