Page 30 of Interview with the Billionaire

As I write this, my wife of less than a day is sleeping, the sound of the surf on this secluded beach filling our charming, beachfront room.

I hope you know that you are the mother she should have had. That asking you to participate in the wedding wasn’t Nikki simply being polite.

And I hope you know how much you mean to me, now and over the years.

I loved my mother, so I don’t want to claim you in that way but I hope you know that I have always thought of you as family.

I think perhaps you bit off more drama than you expected when you agreed to represent me after Jeremiah banged at your door.

For that, I apologize. And I thank you for never wavering. For always being there for me.

There are things about my past that I would change. You are not one of them.

Much love,

I cannot believe that anything about Damien is a danger to me. On the contrary, he is a gift. A rescuer. A knight upon a white steed, though he would scoff at the image and insist that the horse must be a black one.

- Claim Me

Transcript: Hunter/Archer

Day 1, Session 4, 4:15 pm

Audio Transcription by All Access Enterprises

Annotations add by client: Spicer, Magdalena

Location: Stark Home, Malibu, CA, 1st floor living area

Subject(s): Ryan Hunter, Jamie Archer Hunter, Orlando McKee

Interview conduct by Maggie Bridge

Begin Interview

[Subjects Ryan and Jamie are sitting on the sofa. Ryan is sitting while Jamie is lounging, her bare feet in his lap. Orlando (Ollie) is on the floor, his back to the couch near Jamie.)

Bridge: Thank you for agreeing to this interview. As three of the Stark’s closest friends, your perspective is invaluable.

Jamie: Three of? I think you meant to say that since we three are their closest friends.

Bridge: Did I?

[It’s clear she is fighting a smirk.]

Jamie: Totally. Because it’s true. I’d even say that as for me and Nikki, I’m slightly above Ollie.

[She bats at his head.]

Jamie: So you can totally hit the road.

Ollie: Jamie, chill. You put a camera in front of her and you get The Personality. You want to see the real Jamie, you’ll have to turn the video off.

Bridge: I guess I’ll just suffer through the hyped-up version of Jamie. I prefer having a video. I like to look back at facial expressions.

Jamie: I do that. Study faces. Only I do it as an acting exercise.

Bridge: I do it to see who’s bullshitting me in an interview.