The water in the bathroom rattled for a while, and Eric, wiping his body, stepped out of the bathroom.

The sunlight that broke through the cracks in the curtains was already showing a bit of brightness, and on a September morning in Los Angeles, the temperature was just around 22 degrees, which Eric remembered as the golden temperature that the human body tolerates.

Lightly finding the clothes and putting them on her body, she looked at the girl who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, and because the blankets were scattered aside, the girl's naked body was unreservedly displayed in front of Eric's eyes. Because of her Oriental blood, the girl's whole skeleton looks delicate and small, and her skin is smoother and more delicate than that of Western women. The round thighs below are gently put together, but it is difficult to hide the alluring scenery in between.

Until Eric put on his tie and coat, the girl showed no signs of waking up, Eric looked at the cute appearance of the girl sleeping with her right thumb like a baby, and couldn't help but get up a little, sat down on the bed gently, reached out and pulled out the fingers that the girl held in her mouth, and fed her index finger with her hand.

In an instant, Eric felt two moist lips very consciously wrap around his fingertips, and as Eric gently probed in, the two rows of small teeth opened and closed and bit on the fingertips a few times, as if he was testing something, as if he felt the difference between this finger, and the small tongue in his mouth began to push up dissatisfiedly, as if he wanted to drive the strange intruder out.

It's a pity that the strength of the girl's little tongue is far less than Eric's, and after a teasing 'push', the girl suddenly opened her eyes.

"Yikes!"

Quickly bounced up and pulled over the blanket to cover his carcass, Gabriel remembered the events of last night after seeing Eric's smiling appearance clearly. only to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Morning ...... Good morning, Eric," seems to be a little distracted by his gaffe. The girl smiled and immediately took the initiative to say hello.

"Early. Eric smiled and shook the tips of his wet fingers at the girl, "I didn't expect you to be so cute when you slept." ”

"Ah, I...... Do I have one?"

The girl lowered her head a little shyly, and the moment she opened her eyes, she also saw the movement of Eric's fingers, so she remembered some of the images from last night.

Eric smiled and nodded, "Of course, this is the first time I've seen a girl who likes to hold her fingers in her mouth when she sleeps." ”

"I don't even know it myself. The girl, still with her eyelids downcast, glanced around slightly, as if looking for something.

Eric empathetically gathered up a few pieces of clothing and handed them to the girl: "It's nothing, in fact, many people don't know that they snore when they sleep." Even after waking up, he still didn't admit it. ”

Gabriel, who was about to secretly put on his little underwear, raised his head in horror: "I...... I'm not snoring, am I?"

"Of course not," Eric quickly shook his head, "I'm just giving an example." ”

"Oh," the girl breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing the girl put on her panties and a small tank top, and walked barefoot to the wardrobe, Eric said, "Baby, I think I have to go." ”

Gabriel, who was standing by the closet and thinking about what to wear more beautiful today, paused for a moment and turned his head: "Haven't you had breakfast?"

Eric looked at his watch and said, "It's almost half past eight now, and there may be traffic jams on the road, so I don't know if I can get to the company at nine o'clock." Because at two o'clock in the afternoon I was flying to Venice. So there's a few things that need to be dealt with quickly, and there's a meeting with Robert and Jeffrey at ten o'clock about the merger of Firefly and New Line. My new movie shooting schedule is also out, and I need to see it for myself...... All in all, I have a lot to deal with in the next five hours or so. ”

Seeing the girl listening with her fingers on her face in disappointment, Eric's tone softened as he spoke, and he felt a sense of ruthless guilt in his heart, so he had to wave his hand and gestured: "This ...... Is there a breakfast room nearby, maybe we can have breakfast together, not too bad for a decade or two. ”

"Of course, I can wash my face first, right?" the girl lifted her little face in surprise.

Now that the decision has been made. Eric, of course, no longer cares about time: "Let's take a shower by the way, but it's better to be faster." ”

"Then you wait!"

The girl excitedly picked out a few pieces of clothing. Rushed into the bathroom on tiptoe and got out again in less than fifteen minutes. He was already wearing a light blue one-shoulder hip skirt, black stockings tightened and slender his legs, his hair was pulled into a small bun, he picked out a high heel from the shoe rack next to him and put it on, stood up and said to Eric: "Okay, let's go, the restaurant is forty or fifty steps across the street." ”

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"Eric, it's almost half past nine, what's going on with you today, and your mobile phone is turned off, don't you know how tight the time is today?" asked Jeffrey with an anxious look on his face when Eric appeared in the company.

Facing the anxious old man, Eric explained with some embarrassment: "Sorry, Jeffrey, on the way...... Traffic. ”

"No way, there is no traffic jam here from where you live, and I don't know this way. ”

"Actually, I'm from West Hollywood," Eric said honestly, immediately raising his hands.

"Uh......" Jeffrey was stunned, and soon understood something. At the same time, he realized that he was a little overstepping, Eric was his boss after all, although he knew that he was stern and Eric would not mind, but he was not Eric's elder after all, and occasionally taught Eric a few words, Eric would not say anything out of respect for him, but after a long time, everyone would be dissatisfied.

"Okay, there are a few documents that you need to sign, I've already asked Alan to sort them and put them on your desk, you have half an hour to deal with them, Robert is about to bring someone over, I'll go to the conference room to prepare." ”

"I'll take care of it," Eric nodded at Jeffrey and walked briskly to his office, who went about to get his business ready.

Although the merger and acquisition agreement has been signed, the two companies really merge, and they still need to deal with a lot of problems such as business integration, management organization design, company structure adjustment, and personnel integration and dismantling, so it will take several months for the two companies to truly merge together, and the business of both parties will not stop during this period, and there will be a period of parallel operation.

After hurriedly processing a few papers, the assistant came and knocked on the door, and Eric hurriedly put down the paper and walked towards the conference room.

In the conference room, in addition to Robert Shea, there were six or seven middle and senior managers on the new line who attended the meeting, while on the Firefly's side, the few clerks in charge of the meeting minutes ignored the only two people, Eric and Jeffrey, which showed that the Firefly's very weak background.

Although the profitability of the new line is far less than that of Firefly, all businesses are very sound, and there is no shortage of production, copyright, publicity, and distribution departments, and then look at Firefly, if you don't look at its terrifying profitability, it is actually more like a small workshop, Jeffrey is responsible for management, and at the same time serves as the producer of Eric's films, although sometimes he is busy, but most of the time he is more than enough to do it alone.

The two-hour meeting didn't really come out of much, except for the quick agreement on finding another office space to move the two companies together, and it was a debate about the power of production.

Of course, Eric hopes that Robert Shea will completely let go of this part and concentrate on the distribution of the film, if the distribution ability is strong, coupled with his vision for film, Firefly can leap to the status of a film giant in a few years.

But this proposal was rejected outright by Robert Shea, which is also expected, and the head of a film company does not even have the power to produce the film, isn't that a joke?

Eric then suggested that Robert Shea could be in charge of producing some low-budget horror films, after all, this aspect was barely his 'forte'.

To Eric's surprise, Robert Shea still refused, not only was he not satisfied with the production power of the previous small-budget films, but also hoped to be able to operate several large-scale productions in the future. Because he knew that with the proceeds of Eric's next few films, Firefly would have a large amount of cash in the cash, although Robert Shea didn't dare to play like this when he was in the new line, after all, losing a big production and the new line was almost bankrupt, but at this time, with Firefly's funds as the backing, Robert Shay's ambition swelled. After all, there are not many low-cost and high-grossing dark horse movies in Hollywood, otherwise Eric's results would not be so amazing. And if you want to get a stable and high return, big investment and big system are king.

Of course, Eric couldn't agree immediately with Robert Shay's idea, even if Fireflies were rich, but they weren't fun. And he didn't have any confidence in Robert Shea's vision. Despite the fiascos of the new line in his previous life, it seems that Robert Shea had a little more luck in filmmaking.

But in the face of Robert Shea's insistence, Eric also had to make temporary concessions, after all, what he urgently needs now is that the distribution channel is in the hands of the other party, so the complete integration of the new line is the first priority, and the temporary loss of power is inevitable.

In the end, after some arguments with Robert Shea, Eric reluctantly agreed that in the next year, he would give the new line label two large-scale Zuò films with a total cost of less than $50 million, and give full control to Robert Shea.

After the two-hour meeting, Robert Shea and his party left satisfied, and Eric continued to read the papers while eating a simple lunch, and then he had to finish reading the last few documents that needed to be signed when he was about to leave for the airport. (To be continued)