Chapter 75

Blake and Derek trooped out along with the others after the lecture. Blake along with the others were in Austin, Texas, for the boardroom forum annual business conference. It was a weekend program and tonight, Sunday was the gala night.

He and Blake were now close after their meeting. Derek had proposed the buying over of a distressed group of hotels. Seeing that it was a good business idea, Blake had agreed, and they were working on it already.

“When is our flight tomorrow?” Derek asked as they walked towards the luxury rental car that would take them back to their hotel.

“It's noon,” he replied Derek.

“Blake,” he heard Cassie’s voice and turned around.

“You are leaving too?” He asked. “I thought you said you have a meeting with Jarrod after the gala.”

She sighed exasperatedly, “can you imagine, he has postponed again.”

“Sorry about that.”

“We are leaving too,” Blake said.

Cassie called a quick greeting out to Derek and said to Blake, “I’ll see you later.” Donovan and Mark are alre