Love, Lust & Lies (season one)✔️

S1E12

DONNA JACKSON-I'm Bossy!

"Gentlemen, what you have in front of you is the reason you pay me so well."

Also why she was the real boss of Jackson Properties. Antonio may have the title of CEO, but nothing went through the company without her input.

Donna grinned as her big brothers looked over Van Russell's newly acquired Scoville properties. In just three months they were deep in a hole. They already tried to get rid of forty percent of it, with no way of salvaging twenty percent, and the forty percent that was worthwhile they were trying unsuccessfully to finance new Van Russell stores in those locations.

"Serious? Yo! Do they even know what the fuck they are doing over there?" Quinton asked. "Who's in charge? Ethan?"

"You would think. No, it's Will Statner."

"It's still early," Antonio said and pushed the report aside. "We knew there would be a hard turnaround even if we had it. I mean, I don't wish good fortune for those turds, just saying, Marty is not going to lay down and take a seven million dollar hit."

"I don't give a fuck if it was seven mil or one mil, it ain't our mil." Donna sat back and glared at her brothers. "Now can I get an apology?"

"For what?" Quinton asked.

"For keeping this company afloat. That's me, all my hard work. And my assistant Anita. She came through on this."

"You're not getting an apology from me," Quinto said. "Dream on."

"This is a dog-eat-dog world baby sis. You win some, you lose some. I still don't buy this," Antonio said. "This deal stank from the beginning, but I agreed with Q. We needed it. We need new business. I'm tired of pissing around. Jacksons gotta take ours."

"What are you saying?"

"We should offer the Van Russells an olive branch....buy some of that off of their hands."

Donna stood in a rage. "Are you crazy? We don't make deals with those people."

"It's business, sis."

"Fuck that! You might give me pause dealing with Scoville's slimy ass, but I won't give a second thought to us dealing with the Van Russells."

"Are you forgetting who runs the shots here?"

"How could you consider doing business with a family that basically killed our father."

"Maybe Donna's right, bro," Quinton said. "I can't see us working any kind of way with the Van Russells."

"When you two are done," Antonio said and stood. "I'll go make the call."

"Dad will roll over in his grave."

"Right. And give me a high five," Antonio said.

MARTY VAN RUSSELL-Who's The Boss

The Scoville losses were adding up quickly. He just did not get it. They had turned much worse properties into winners, why now was everything out of order? His right-hand man William was working his ass off trying to salvage things. They had the best of the best consultants, but all they recommended was for them to jump ship.

And then Jennifer was on him about cutting her spending money. What the hell did she need ten thousand dollars a week for when she sat on her ass all day? That was half a million thousand dollars a year. Granted that did not put a dent in his yearly income, but it still was wasteful spending. He worked hard every day and it was not for her to blow it on jewelry, and clothes, and getting drunk.

And the boob job.

Liposuction.

Lip injections.

Butt implants.