Book 3. Nick's Pursuit. Chapter 1

"Hey Nick, did you see Porty's daughter?" asked Darren Wilkinson, twenty-year-old Nicholas Taylor's best buddy in the entire world.

"She's as ugly as him," said Darren's on-and-off girlfriend, Kendall Millerton, who was also in the same batch as them.

"I'm not interested, Darren. He hates me and I stay as far away from him as possible," said Nicholas Taylor, or Nick, as he prefers to be called.

"Actually, none of us are interested in Porty," said Ken Franklin, another friend from their group. Porty was their professor, Eric Davenport, who was a strict, no-nonsense, middle-aged, scary-looking Professor who scared the shit out of his students. He was the Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Cullen Distinguished Chair, and Professor of Finance at the Bauer College of Business under the University of Houston, where they all studied. Nick and his friends were into their second year of the undergraduate program in Financial Management in the same college and therefore w