Chapter 66: I Miss You
Xander stayed longer in Country V than he had initially planned because of some problems that he needed to take care of personally. He heaved a long sigh of frustration as he was sitting in the car that was heading to the construction site.
He was supposed to fly back home with one of their private planes earlier today, but it got canceled when his construction crew discovered some human bones at the construction site this morning.
"Boss... The contractor has ordered a halt to all activities on-site," reported Assistant Ron to which Xander responded with an acknowledging nod.
He was the landowner, so he had instructed his team to inform him of everything that was going on at the site. He wasn’t new to handling a hospital construction project, and he knew in big projects like this, anything could happen. But this was the first time he had encountered such a problem. And, funnily, it happened to be at the first project that he took on to expand his hospital worldwide.
The one he had right now at Country V was the biggest hospital construction project Xander had ever undertaken, and he wanted to launch it as soon as possible. This place lacked a hospital with excellent facilities like theirs, needed a hospital facility like theirs, so he would love to finish it soon.
Assistant Ron was briefing him about how Country V had different bureaucracies when it came to providing building licenses and such.
It would have not been much of a problem had they found animal bones. But these were human remains... The worst-case scenario was if Country V’s authority would discover a shred of evidence on the site that was pointing to an unsolved murder investigation. Or if they would discover that the building site was a long-abandoned public cemetery and decided to retract all the building licenses to restore the site to its original purpose.
Assistant Ron’s mobile phone rang. After he ended the call, he reported, "Boss, the archeology experts are already at the site. There could be months of delay."
Xander massaged his temples. He didn’t mind a delay as long as it was clear when they could resume the construction. But with this kind of problem, there was always a risk that the project would be suspended indefinitely, or worse, shut down. He had worked on this project for quite a long time, and it was now giving him a total headache.