They think it will tie you into continuing even if the project is only marginally profitable at first," she said."Okay, let me think a minute." I did ...and I decided that I would have a million in 18 units that might or might not sell quickly. The decision was easy for me. "Call them back and tell them "no thanks." I can negotiate a better deal," she said."You didn't fucking listen any of you. I told you that I was finished after my last offer. They had one chance and they blew it. If you want to. Alan lied a lot to both of them about his outside activities, and claimed to have nights out with the boys, which he sometimes left early and turned up at Martha's on the off-chance. To a certain extent this was annoying, but he paid the rent and Martha did not want to anger him by turning him away too often. In any case, the door opened for him, so the first she knew that he was visiting on nights like that was when he walked in.Martha's had much more complete domination of Sandra than she had. Tonight I would find out what I needed to know about myself. We made it to her house after driving for about 25 minutes. It was in a nearby town and was the only house that I had seen in miles.There was no going back now. We arrived at her house and she walked beside me to the front door. Tonight certainly wasn't what I had planned, in fact it seemed to have turned out so much better. I just hoped she wouldn't take too long to make her move once we got inside. We sat in her living room, just. “I guess that just told me what kind of friendship we’re going to have, close and informal! That sounds totally great. Come just as you are, sweetie, Clifford always dresses casual in the evening. Anything you won’t eat?”Our evening was actually a whole lot of fun, not nerve-wracking at all. Honest. Some of the meals I’d eaten at the Szymanski house, when they’d invited an eligible lady along for me to meet, had been rather more formal and stilted, their purpose a little too obvious for.