Page 27 of Interview with the Billionaire

Bridge: Yes, but—

D. Stark: The point is I knew immediately that she was my future. If there was no party, there would have been another moment in the future.

Bridge: That seems rather woo-woo for a man so scientifically inclined.

D. Stark: Maybe that’s why I’m so damn successful. I see things beyond the realms of expectation.

Bridge: There’s a quote for the article.

[We all laugh. Considering the awkwardness a few hours ago, I’m relieved.]

Bridge: So the baseline reason you two are now happily married with a family is because of a beauty pageant?

N. Stark: Yes.

D. Stark: Actually, if we’re walking this line, then as much as I hate to admit it, I think we need to point to Jeremiah and Elizabeth.

Bridge: Your father and Nikki’s mother?

N. Stark: Seriously?

D. Stark: Would you have been at that pageant if your mother hadn’t pushed you? And I wouldn’t have been judging if my father hadn’t pushed me into tennis.

N. Stark: But we would have found each other anyway.

[She takes his hand.]

N. Stark: So I say that we were the catalyst. Not them. Never them.

D. Stark: You’re right. It all goes back to us.

Interview End

Damien’s Journal

Scars

I saw her secret today. What she thinks is her shame. What she believes she has to keep hidden.

She couldn’t be more wrong.

Those are battle scars. Proof of what she has endured.

She is exceptional.

And even if I have to move heaven and earth—even if I have to give up every dollar I’ve earned and everything I’ve built—I will make her see the strength inside her.

More than that, I will make her mine.

He looks at me and sees strength. He believes in me even when I don’t believe in myself. “I have the strength because of you,” I say.

He shakes his head. “That’s not true. But even if it is, so what? I’m right beside you, and I promise you, sweetheart, I’m not going anywhere.

- Anchor Me

Transcript: Dodge/Dunlop

Day 1, Session 3, 3:30 pm