She picks up on the third ring. “Robin, this is Claire Jarrett,” I say. “I need to ask a small favor. Do you happen to know any of the first-rung agents at MAU? Someone you know well enough to answer a question regarding his boss?”
“David Simonson and I go way back. He’ll be honest with me if I promise it’s off the record. What do you need?”
“Ask if he’s heard any rumors regarding Mason and Mona Simmons from yesterday. I’ll owe you one.”
I know Robin will call that favor one day, but this is important. She agrees and hangs up.
As I try to work, the image keeps popping into my mind of Stark and Mona going at it in a men’s room stall. Since I know the décor of the Melrose Star’s restrooms, the picture is far too life-life for my taste. Although I’d never tell him to his face, Mason Stark is a seriously sexy man. Handsome face, tall, great hair, hot body, arrogant as fuck. Throughout the morning, my brain keeps returning to Stark’s naked back and his bare ass as he thrusts in and out of Mona.
Robin calls back just before lunch. “David says the office gossip is about a particularly nasty comment Mason made to Jackie Hightower yesterday, something about her licking balls. Mona was there, but so were you, right?”
“I was,” I concur. “I was curious if word of that had already leaked. Jesus, gossip flies at light speed in this town.” I thank Robin and hang up.
That bastard.
Apparently, nobody in his office is talking about the far more salacious act Stark committed with Mona Simmons. That tells me Stark likely told only Eric Leininger, asking him to pass it on as “gossip” to his friend at CT – my assistant, Brian. Stark didn’t want the story to leak as gossip, probably to spare Mona the embarrassment, but he definitely wanted it to get to me. Mission accomplished, asshole.
However he talked Mona into it, I have to admit that although it’s immature and mean, it’s also deviously brilliant. It’s a message from Stark to me:
Fuck you and your equal pay demands.
And now it’s up to me to retaliate.
Before, I was just putting on a show for Cheyenne Parris, agreeing to take Mona’s request to Jackie to see what happens. I figured Jackie would give it a quick veto and that would be the end of it. Instead, for some reason Jackie decides it’s time to right every wrong Hollywood has perpetrated on actresses over the years. God knows Jackie’s been on the wrong side of the industry’s patriarchal ways, with all the vicious rumors about her. When I spoke to her moments before that meeting with Stark, Jackie said, “You know, it’s time. What’s right is right.” I assumed she meant it in some abstract sense, not in the sense that she was going to march into the meeting and actually try to make it happen then and there.
Afterward, I was willing to just let Stark and Jackie hash it out, knowing that Stark would win, and then everybody could get on with the business of making movies.
Now Stark has made this about me.
I’m guessing he couldn’t resist taking a shot at his rival. In the past, though, such behavior was limited to a gloating email when he poached a client from me. This was nastier. Maybe he figured I’d back off my equal pay request if I thought Mona was secretly in his corner. That won’t be happening, though. The man obviously doesn’t know me as well as he thinks he does.
I push the intercom button.
“Brian, get me T.J. Holland’s phone number. And don’t mention this to your buddy Eric.”
I’m about to make it my mission to get Cheyenne Phillips the money she wants for this movie.
I am also going to make history and be the first agent to secure equal pay for equal work.
And I am going to assfuck Mason Stark in the process.
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