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"Nick is here, but he’s sticking to the background He’s not ready to deal with press yet, and I’ht hied "I may have told him that there was a seat on the jet if he wanted it And then I may have sent that jet for hiet my emotions under control, and then I mentally said "fuck it" and threwhis back "Thank you"

He returned the gesture "Don’t et up there How many views are we at?" We’d been a thousand shy about an hour ago, and I knew Brandon--he was an asshole about numbers

"You’re close, but you’re not there," he answered

I nodded "Yeah I figured We took a gaoing to do?" Brandon asked

"Use the ship"

"What?"

"If we don’tto the board As in put my ass in a suit, fly to LA, and use the ship as collateral against the cost of funding the movie We both know the ship is worth a hell of a lot more than the production costs"

"There’s an idea" A spark flashed in his eyes that I almost called pride

"I know Dad will be pissed It’s Moht now…if you catchway"

Brandon nodded "Why do you think he’s been working so hard to hand over everything? He toldanda life"

"Holy shit" That was incredibly unlike our type-A father

"Then he told ht him that"

Okay, noas speechless "I don’t…I don’t knohat to say"

"Say you’ll use the ship Dad spent your entire life investing in you Now it’s time for you to invest in yourself, and I honestly think he’ll be excited that you’re o juain and walked off, passing Landon "Break your leg, asshole," he called out, flipping him off

"Nice to see you, too, Brandon," Landon answered "Da to let that go?"

"Steal a guy’s girlfriend once, and his brother hates you for life," Penna answered, wheeling over to us

Landon winced If he’d knohat had gone down the last ith Rachel here, he’d be doing a hell of a lot"Come on That’s ancient history"