Working Stiff: Office Romance with a Royal Secret by Babylon Blair

Author:Babylon, Blair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Malachite Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

CYRANO ON THE CELL PHONE

Rox sat in the center of the long table in Conference Room A, which was one of the few conference rooms in the office that had solid walls.

Some of their celebrity clients actually cared about how their contracts were written and came in with their lawyers for the discussion, and so they used these private conference rooms for those times.

Rox had booked it because she didn’t want anyone to see that Cash wasn’t there.

Wren sat beside her, her long, blond hair cascading over her shoulders. After Rox had shown Wren the Woods contract with the egregious clauses in it, Wren wanted to see all the contracts in the office. She had found another bizarre clause in a contract for a shock comedienne, signed six months ago, that could cause the actress to have to pay royalties to Tigersblood Production Company to use her own standup material that had preexisted before she had signed the contract. Rox had nearly flipped her ever-lovin’ lid on that one.

Wren tossed her blond hair behind her shoulders. “Everybody ready?”

The lawyers on the other side of the table, one woman and two men, nodded and flipped open their portfolios. The Japanese man held his pen pinched with both his hands, looking very ready to do battle. These were Gina Watson’s personal lawyer and accounting team who handled all aspects of her finances. Cash and his firm were intellectual property contract attorneys, hired guns brought in to inspect this particular contract.

“Let’s go,” Rox said. “We’ll start with the first page.”

At least Cash didn’t need to cue her for the basic procedure. She had done at least a couple hundred of these contract discussions with him over the last three years.

It was really weird to do this without him there.

In her ear, Cash whispered, “Can you still hear me?”

Rox’s laptop was open in front of her, supposedly to take notes on the contract. It was small enough that she could see over the top to talk to the other lawyers.

In a side chat window, she typed, Yes.

Cash whispered, “Good. The first problem doesn’t come up until page three.”

Rox lifted her chin and said in her best professional voice, “The first problematic clause is on page three, but let’s discuss the first few pages to make sure we concur.”

They dissected every page, every clause. Any time Rox was unsure, she typed a question mark in her chat, and Cash told her what to say. She repeated everything verbatim.

Cash whispered in her ear, “This means that principal photography must be completed by September fifteenth, which is two weeks beyond the customary three-month shoot, or else the studio will incur a ten percent penalty. That protects your client from penalties for the Ridley Scott project that she’s already signed for in the fall, should there be an overrun.”

Rox repeated it as he spoke. Screw Watson, Rox deserved an Oscar for her performance in the role of a top-notch lawyer.

While the other lawyers conferred about a note to add in, she typed in her chat window, You don’t have to whisper.

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