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She got up, went to her bedroom and started to sob

The interested buyers and their lawyer met with Cid and Betty The investors presented a proposal and offered them ten million dollars for both Gourmet Treats If they wanted to, they could stay on as consultants and receive twenty percent of the net profits The owners felt the bid was an excellent one but did not wish to stay on as advisers but placed a stipulation before selling the business: Passion and Dough would have to stay on in their current positions

The backers agreed

Dough and Passion would e both shops or hire someone to run the New York City one and have co projected revenues, the investors would real, he read the contract, and everything seereement

In one week, they would receive a cashier's check

That evening, Dough received a call fro, "They took the bait"

It was early Friday h's last day in Carson City Passion was already awake As she was getting ready to take a shower, Dough grabbed and kissed her; they ended uplove for almost two hours

She was overjoyed and shouted, "I love you and want to be your wife"

He said, "I have always loved you but did not want to rush into a serious relationship and wanted to make certain that you wanted to be with me, and now I am ready to commit myself to you forever"

She succumbed to his lines and was ready to be with him without end but had no clue it would be her last day with him

They left for work, but he had to ift for her He would see her in a couple of hours

In her eh left for the airport, he went back to Passion's house He got on her coed into Cid and Betty's personal and business accounts and moved all of the funds into an offshore account

He left the house, hailed a cab to the airport, got on his flight and landed in Mexico He went to The Global Bank of Mexico and had over five million dollars wired into another offshore account, which was somewhere in South America

It was already two in the afternoon, and Passion was patiently waiting for Dough to co had happened and called home to see if he was there, but there was no answer