Page 30 of Crazy In Love

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She’s asking for your phone number.

Brenner

She’s refusing the gift.

Brenner

Should I give her your number?

Brenner

Boss, you there?

For fuck’s sake. When did people get so picky? It’s a gift.

Brenner

It’s a toilet.

A very fancy toilet with all the bells and whistles.

Brenner

Still. It’s a toilet.

Give me her cell number.

He sent me her phone number, and I saved the contact in my phone, deciding what I wanted to say.

I developed software apps for a living. I’d sold the first app I ever developed to an investor out of Japan for $500 million before negotiating the next large deal the following year.

I was on the cover ofForbesmagazine by the age of thirty.

I could handle Emilia fucking Taylor.

This is Bridger Chadwick. I understand we have a problem with the gift?

Three little dots moved around the screen, and I found myself staring at the phone like I was waiting for the biggest deal of my life to close.

Emilia

A problem with the gift?

That’s a bit dramatic. It’s a gift.

Emilia

Listen, Daddy Warbucks, you can take your deep pockets and your fancy shitter and shove them both where the sun don’t shine.

I stared down at the phone, equal parts annoyed and amused.

Who knew Emilia Taylor had such an impressive backbone?

Most people were intimidated by me. She’d always appeared to be one of those people. But here she was, delivering up a big shit sandwich and serving it to me.

That shitter has a lot of bells and whistles.

Emilia

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