Imminent Loan Repayment
However, the construction company hung by a thread. A small loan of $500,000 would come due in three weeks. Three years prior, such a sum would have been paid without a second thought. But not today.
The only path to acquire the sum lay through ginseng. The incessant four weeks of rain had kept James on edge, like a cat on hot bricks. He had even ventured into the woods twice, disregarding the downpour.