Chapter 206

I nodded as I took another sip.

"Yeah, kind of just stumbled my way into it," I said.

I explained how I’d met Peter and then Petey and began working adjacent to the production company. We could work independently but essentially adjacent to Petey’s company. At least for now. It was a little awkward to talk about what I’d done -- well, what Jason and I had done -- in this field. It didn’t seem real, but as I went through it, I realized that we had enjoyed an undeserved and improbable run of success. Maybe it wasn’t undeserved. We had been smart in how we set things up. But it was improbable. As I told Henry too much and talked too long, I realized the magnitude of what I had built. And then this chiseled popstar brought home how much that meant.

"So, John, man, Riley and I have been talking," he said with a lack of poise that was totally out of character in the brief time I knew him. "I’ve done a couple supporting parts in movies, but she’s