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“Hey!” I shout out

And I realize that Ethan Kane—the real thing—is standing right in front of me

“Figured you’d want me in the flesh?” he asks, a smirk, on his lips

I smile at him and stand up

I’a pants and a tank top It’s a Sunday and neither of us has work today Thank God

I’m serious, hun If you only knew the kind of year that we’ve had

Oh, no, it wasn’t bad at all In fact it was several orders of reat

First, let’s do the work bits

So Conners Media and everything controlled by Simon Conners kind of blew up after the disaster that was Tiest coan to implode, Ethan found hian to start picking up and buying pieces of Conners Media from the banks after they were sold off

The final death knell came when HawkeLane Media, the direct Internet sex entertainment company run by Arsen Hawke and his wife purchased the rest of the assets at fire sale prices and fired Simon Conners

After that, Sian to try and nurse his depression and spent six h millions of dollars

Iout Constantly strung out and finding no one anted to fuck his coked up liot busted a few times withthat the authorities wondered hoas even still alive

They stopped wondering six o when his body went into a cocaine-induced overdose and he was found dead outside of his 3rd Avenue apart

He died poor And alone

I never learned how he found out about Robert until Cheryl approached me a feeeks after the Times Square matchup