Chapter Four: The Sixty-Day Reckoning

“By the time we win, the bank will own the hotel again.” Lena opened the sixty-day cash-flow sheet. “We save revenue first.” Instead of deleting comments, she livestreamed the mechanical level. The old fire main was cut into numbered sections; procurement invoices, weld tests, and permit progress appeared on a lobby screen. She also leased the twelve best ocean rooms to the municipal fire academy for a two-week emergency-housing exercise. Its fee covered the first shipment of pipe. Marcus struck somewhere more dangerous. The care provider withdrew its lease for forty long-stay suites after its parent company received an anonymous compliance warning. Without that lease, the bank would not release renovation funds for floors four through six.