Billion Dollar Urge: A Billionaire Romance by Jackson Kane

Author:Jackson Kane [Kane, Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Dante

Film and entertainment is a two-trillion dollar industry. Those were hard numbers to wrap your mind around. To put that in perspective, if Film were a country it would be worth more than all of the Untied Kingdom combined, ranking it as seventh in the world of economic superpowers.

And beating out Disney for market share, Lionhouse Studio was at the top of the very short list of companies that ran the entire industry. The Lionhouse CEO, chairman and senior executive vice president—three of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world—sat opposite me right now.

These people shaped an entire generation through media.

I never had much patience with this end of filming, and most of the time I was able to avoid it like the plague. Sometimes that wasn’t possible, like today for instance. When these three called, you answered.

I was a stuntman through and through. It was in my blood. Give me a script and a writer’s pipedream, and I’d turn that into a reality. I trained the actors and choreographed the impossible. You want a knife fight in zero gravity? Monsters tearing through New York? Aliens? Sentient cars kicking the shit out of each other? No problem.

I was the best there was and that’s why I was here.

“So you see, therein lies our problem,” continued Jonathan, the youngest of the three executives and current CEO. Unlike the other two, Jonathan was in his early forties. Of the group, he did most of the talking both privately here in his office and to the general public. He planted both smooth, manicured hands on the oak desk that separated us and leaned forward, trying to strike a warmer, more human presence. Glancing back at the older man and woman that flanked him, he finished, “We need your help.”

I leaned back into my plush chair opposite the three of them, crossing my leg. My fingers drummed absently against the fine Italian leather of the armrest as I considered exactly what they were asking of me. The time I spent in the Bahamas filming the nature documentary; Swimming with Sharks, immediately came to mind.

The CEO’s office was extravagant in a vintage Hollywood way, oozing gold, dark wood furnishings, inlaid glass designs, diamond-set fixtures and intricately carved marble floors and walls. It was restored from their opulent grand opening in the roaring twenties, and was the showpiece of the entire studio. I’d met them here separately on various occasions, but never all together like this.

“No,” I said evenly.

“Dante—” Jonathan started.

“I told you Ashley needed more time. She was nowhere near ready when you tapped her to perform. And we all know what happened then.” What they did to that poor girl was unforgivable. I fought to keep the edge from my tone; they were still technically my employers. Even if they weren’t, they controlled such a large part of the industry that I’d have trouble finding work with the other studios if they blacklisted me.

Typically, a stuntman worked freelance under the Screen

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