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papers in
his hand. “I’ll be back to you as soon as I can.”
     
    A few hours later Callie Sawyer and her
brother Rob were exchanging text messages.
     
    Calliente: What’s up?
    RobSaw: About to start SW 2100. How was ur
test?
    Calliente: OK. But no time to study.
    RobSaw: Same. History tomorrow.
    Calliente: I remember Ms. Gillstrap.
    RobSaw: She’s tough.
    Calliente: You play videos a lot.
    RobSaw: I’m good. You act a lot.
    Calliente: I’m good. J
    RobSaw: Hope so. When’s ur first movie?
    Calliente: Not sure. Five years?
    RobSaw: Sooner. U R good. ☺
    Calliente: Thanks bro. How are m&d?
    RobSaw: The same. Work and worry.
    Calliente: OK. Gotta go. Good luck in the
street war.
    RobSaw: Thanks.
     
    Late that afternoon Paul Burke knocked on
the open door to David’s office. “About what happened in Knox’s
office,” Burke began as he walked in and took a seat. “the only
thing I knew about was the Cinema Group acquisitions in Los
Angeles. The first I heard about dumping Hong Kong was when you
did.”
    David shook his head. “The good news and the
bad news are that we work for Trevor Knox. Do you think he knows
how much we’ve already invested in Hong Kong?”
    “It doesn’t seem to matter. Can you make the
change?”
    “Probably, but we’re pretty thin. I’ll have
to take up the slack. Kristen will get Capital Tower kicked off
here, then she’ll head to Seoul and Singapore. I gave Moscow to
Todd this morning, but now I’ll take it. I was just writing an
email to the broker who helped us last year.
    “I obviously can’t ask Kristen or Cheryl to
work on Los Angeles. Kristen gets upset about the Platinum Club.
What would she say about our movie sets?” He paused. It was an
occasional discussion point among the company’s senior executives
that Knox travelled to Los Angeles more often than business issues
required; he seemed to take a personal interest in this particular
USNet product. “Aren’t our films about one hundred percent porn
now? I don’t remember them being that way when we started.”
    Burke cleared his throat. “Adult films,” he
corrected, “and the profit is incredible. It’s a market that’s
exploding for us, and these acquisitions should be even more
profitable. We’re just going where our customers take us. The only
competition is the free stuff being posted on share sites. So now
we’re funding two of those as well, and sharing the income with the
people who provide the material. A regular cottage industry on the
internet.”
    “I’m so proud. Well, anyway, I’ll get the
ball rolling on the movie companies in Los Angeles and then go to
Moscow. So, how are your budgets?”
    Burke leaned back. “They’re fine. Quarterly
earnings will be up again. If we were a public company the Wall
Street guys would love us. But, tell me, do you need more staff
?”
    David looked at his friend for a long
moment. “Paul, we need at least twice as many. You don’t just read
a book and do a multi-million-dollar lease the next day. Todd and
Chris are good examples. They’re not as far along as Kristen, but
they’re starting to be productive. What we talked about upstairs
should take a much larger team several months to finish.”
    Burke thought for a moment. “Lay out the new
real estate group space in Capital Tower for twice as many people.
How does that sound?”
    He smiled. “I just hope we live to see
it.”
     
    “You’re home early,” Elizabeth said, as
David opened the door from the garage. She was slicing potatoes at
the kitchen’s central island; he walked over and kissed her cheek.
A pile of clothes spread onto the ceramic tile floor from the
laundry area behind the kitchen, the dryer whirred, and roasting
beef sizzled in the oven.
    “I just felt like coming home on time.”
    She stopped and turned to him. “Are you
OK?”
    “Yeah…sure. I’m just a little tired after
last night, and felt like coming home at six.”
    “Well, we like that.” She smiled and