Cornelia Street - Jaylor one-shots

It's obvious that wanting me dead Has really brought you two together

JUNE 2019

-Taylors Pov-

I've had a terrible night's sleep and I give up for tonight. We are in our London home at the moment enjoying a couple of days off work so I was hoping to get some good sleep but that has failed clearly. Now I'm giving up, so I carefully untangle myself from joe and grab some underwear from a drawer since mine is scattered somewhere after last night's activities. I'm not even bothering with pants so I grab one of joe's t-shirts and call it an outfit. After all it's the middle of summer so it's hot, even here in London. Today I'm determined to just spend time with joe so I'm grabbing my phone to get some emails sorted through before he wakes up so I can just enjoy our time together.

Walking downstairs I make myself a cup of coffee before I even dear to look on my phone. When it's acquired I sit down on a barstool but when I unlock my phone I see 15 calls from tree and several from my management, family and friends. This means something bad has happened. I jump over everyone else and go straight to tree because I know she won't sugarcoat things for me. when I call her she picks up almost immediately.

"thank god you picked up Taylor, why haven't you been answering?" she asks and I jawn "well, it's like 6am here in London, so I was sleeping. What's up?" I say and there is a long pause which I know means something big has gone down.

I can hear her sighing before she talks "not going to beat around the bush Taylor. Scott sold your masters" she says, and I roll my eyes "well, I knew when he refused to sell them to me he would sell them to someone else"

When I left BMR last year I made a hard choice of letting go of my past to prioritize my future. I was offered a new contract where I would earn back one of my masters for every new album I turned in. this would mean I would be tied to them and never break out of that cycle. I begged for years for them to just let me buy them, to give me a number, but they refused. I also knew that when I signed that contract he would have found a buyer anyway because I know he wanted to sell the label. We had a long working relationship from the age I was 15 to when I was 29 so there are lots of memories there.

"Taylor, he sold them to scooter Braun" and when she says that my face drops and my blood runs cold. "he did what?!" I yell into the phone and probably hurt her ears, then I put her on speaker because I need to rest my head in my hands because it's spinning.

Scooter has been determined to destroy me for years. To the public he tries to say nice things about me but behind the scenes he is a jerk who uses his clients to tear me up. I know he is threatened by my success, and it shows clearly. After all he Is Justin, Karlie and Kanye's manager so what would one expect.

"I'm so sorry Taylor. we all know what he did to you and can't believe that Scott would do something like this. Your fans are also really confused because they know you're not on good terms, so everything is really confusing right now, and everyone is reaching out to us for comments" she continues, and I just try to keep my breathing steady.

Scott always said he considered me a daughter and even though we had our differences I thought that I could trust him. I honestly thought we left things on good terms but clearly his thoughts on loyalty ends when the contract ends. Clearly everything was a fucking lie.

There are quick footsteps behind me "taylor what's wrong?" a sleepy joe says and comes over to me and rub my shoulders when he sees I'm on the phone with tree. "Scott sold my masters to scooter" I say and by now a tear is rolling down my face, but I quickly wipe them away. Joe wraps his arms around my waist from behind to offer some support "I'm sorry Taylor" he says gently before just being there for me while I talk with tree.

"the fact that a deal like this takes months to close makes my blood boil, couldn't he at least have told me before it hit the bloody news." I sigh.

"we got the mail from him two hours before it reached the news, so I guess that's their shitty attempt of a heads up. And I know your dad has a small share in the company, but I'm told from his lawyer that they knew there would be a sale but not who too, and your father wasn't involved directly but both his lawyer and him was under an NDA. But they didn't even know anything up until a couple of days ago when the final papers where signed" she continues, and I know how that stuff works. The fact that my dad had a small share will be used against me, but I know the truth, anyone who knows anything about the business knows about the NDA of these things. I'm not mad at my dad for it because I know his hands were tied and I know he would never support the sale if he knew it was to scooter.