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Blake nodded.
Then waited.
“You’ve set up a smart company. You have the right people, the subscription model, and authors have taken to them like ducks to water.”
Blake grinned.
“Okay, fine, Harper told me that. I don’t read fiction. I read theNew York Times.” Daniel grinned back and tossed a pen on his desk.
“And it’s a good idea.”
So far, this was going great. Blake shrugged humbly.
“Yeah, yeah, you know that. K-Books copied you for a reason.” Daniel shook his head, a small smile left on his lips.
“Here’s the thing. While the model might not be new, they are evolving.” Fletcher shrugged. “That allows for more possibilities.”
“So, what? You think I should borrow some money and keep going?”
“No,” Daniel said firmly.
Fuck.
“You need investors. You need to scale up. You need to grow your brand and make it so appealing that authors will choose you and not K-Scribe.”
Blake shook his head.
Were they insane? Kennedy Enterprises was one of the biggest companies on the planet. You couldn’t compete with them.
A fact he’d been trying to ignore for months.
“They’re fucking huge,” Blake argued and frowned at the three men staring back at him, their lips stretching into evil smiles.
“So are we.” Hunter grinned, leaning his arm along the back of the sofa.
Blake couldn’t help it. He laughed. “Put me out of my misery, would you please.”
“We’ll invest in InkWell. There will be some things you may not like, but that’s part of having partners,” Daniel said.
Blake’s eyes flew wide open. “You want to go into business with me?”
“We won’t be silent,” Fletcher said.
“I don’t want you to be silent.” He nodded.
“Hunter’s is a pain in the ass with the numbers,” Daniel warned.
“Dude, slap my ass. I don’t care.” Blake laughed.
“I’d be careful with that. He might want to,” Fletcher mumbled.
“He’s fucking family, you sick fuck.” Hunter tossed an empty plastic water bottle at his brother.
While the two of them continued taunting each other, Blake walked over to the whiteboard where they had been scribbling.
Some were ideas they’d already considered back at InkWell headquarters, but there were a few other concepts he saw forming that might work.
“Having the Dufort name associated with it will give you the leverage you need and the time to test new concepts. To be a little more experimental,” Daniel said. “This is what start-ups rarely have and why they fail.”
