Page 31 of Interview with the Billionaire

[I’m speaking only to Jamie and she knows it. She bursts out laughing.]

Jamie: All right. Let’s get this party started.

Bridge: Jamie and Ollie, you two have been friends with Nikki since college?

Jamie: High school. And Nik and Ollie were next door neighbors.

Ollie: I got an up close and personal view of the insanity that is her mother.

[Jamie shudders]

Bridge: What?

Jamie: Elizabeth Fairchild is like a creature from a horror movie. I alway shudder in horror movies. Seriously, Nicholas drew the short straw in the mom department.

Bridge: Nicholas. And you’re…?

Jamie: James.

Bridge: And you?

Ollie: Oh, no. They tried out Olivia, but I didn’t bite.

Jamie: Which I think is evidence that it’s not a trifecta but a duet. Sorry, Ol. I’m the real bestie. Girl power and all that.

Ollie: You know I love you, Jamie, but dial it back. Let the woman do her job.

Bridge: So how did the nicknames come about?

Jamie: Ah-ah. You can’t expect me to reveal all our secrets. Seriously, what are you looking for?

Bridge: Just information. You and Nikki went to school together?

Jamie: That’s right. But I was the ballsy one first. I moved here. She stayed in Texas. Then she wised up.

Bridge: And you were already out here?

Ollie: I graduated college early and went to law school. I worked in LA for a while and then transferred to the firm’s New York office. I came back right before Nikki moved here.

Bridge: That was Bender, Twain & McGuire? The firm that represents Damien and Stark International.

Ollie: Yeah.

Bridge: Are you still with them?

Ollie: Considering it’s your job to know things, I think you already know the answer.

Bridge: You’re an attorney with the FBI.

Ollie: I am. I thought a change would be good.

Bridge: And what do you do?

Ollie: I don’t share my life with reporters for no reason. This is about Nikki and Damien.

Bridge: Fair enough. Are the three of you just friends? Or has there every been any romantic or sexual involvement?

[Ollie blushes. Jamie snorts. Ryan looks amused.]