“Yonatan is perceptive. He sensed how much I want him to do things my way… and how much my feelings for him depend on that”
“Sandy, so good to see you again! And how are you, Mrs. Eliav? Please, come right in.” Matthew Fried, senior partner at Goldblum & Fried Accounting Services, was all smiles. He himself had stood waiting for the Eliavs at the entrance to the office’s outer corridor. Diana, his secretary, had bought nicer refreshments than usual and had set them up beautifully, complete with a small arrangement of purple and white tulips in a crystal vase. The members of the professional team were seated at their stations, ready to answer any question likely to come up in the course of the meeting. Even the lawyer was already sitting at the meeting table, waiting for Sandy and Marta.
“All right, let’s move on to my new investment,” said Sandy, after an hour of looking over the general state of his business affairs and tax liability, with illustrative charts. “As I wrote to Matthew, I’m preparing to buy a ground-floor commercial property here in Jerusalem, to be rented out to businesses.”
“Are you thinking of registering it in the name of one of your existing companies,” the accountant asked, “or will you open a new company?”
“That’s what I want to ask you,” said Sandy. “Which is better?”
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