The next day, Darius wasn't with Yuna, as he had told her to rest for the day because he had a lot of places to go. The first one was to get brand deals from all kinds of companies.
The easiest way to do that was to pass phone calls to all kinds of companies. However, that wouldn't do it since it could take days before getting an answer from those companies. Unfortunately, Darius hadn't been able to get all the calls from Yuna's debut performance, which made things a lot harder for him.
Still, he remembered something from his past life. An unknown brand that had yet to make it big. It was a clothing brand that would literally blow up in the next year without a doubt. It was called Nikey.
He managed to get a meeting with the one in charge of their marketing last night. As soon as Darius had sent Yuna's pictures over, the person on the other side of the phone was completely mind-blown by her beauty and decided to take her.
Darius was currently on the way there to decide on her fee for the modeling of the brand. Since it was a new company, it probably wouldn't be much. But once again, it was a long-term investment to make a lot of money down the line.
Soon enough, Darius arrived at the Nikey building and walked right in. He walked over to the counter, and the person there was already aware of his arrival. He was guided to the person taking care of the marketing branch of the company.
"Mister Darius has arrived, Miss," the secretary said as she opened the door to one of the few offices.
"Let him in."
Darius walked in and was met with a girl wearing a buttoned-down shirt, showing most of her cleavage was sitting behind her desk, piles of paper sheets all over it. She was also wearing the classic tight, black skirt. Her hair was black, and her eyes were blue. To be honest, for someone working in an office, she was beautiful. She wasn't close to Yuna's beauty, but she was still something.
"You didn't bring Yuna?" She asked, noticing that Yuna wasn't with him.
"Ah, no. She doesn't like the business side of things."
She clicked her tongue out of annoyance. "I wanted to get started today. Could you call her? And in the meantime, we can talk about her fee."
Darius nodded and called her right away, explaining the situation to her. He also told her to wear normal clothes. If she showed up with the same clothes as yesterday, then things would be a little awkward.
"She's coming now. So, what's your price?"
"Considering that Yuna is still completely unknown to the public and that she was only chosen for her physical appearance. Let's say 5000$ for the whole shooting."
Darius shook his head. "That price is too low. 10 000$, and it's a deal."
After all, the girl had already told him that the shooting would be running for a few days as they needed more models overall. Usually, Darius would have asked for more. But he knew they didn't have the most funds, so he was nice to her. If only she knew the worth that Yuna would have in the future.
"How about 8000$?"
"Hm, fine. But let's add another clause. If the advertisement brings you a lot more clients than you previously thought, you will give her a bonus 7000$."
"What do you consider a lot more clients? 1000?"
Darius rubbed his chin as he knew that this ad would surely blow up with Yuna inside it. This was basically free money that he was making right now.
"Let's say you make 100 000$ in sales in a week after you release the ad. If that happens, you'll give us that bonus. Deal?"
The girl thought for a bit as she finally nodded. 100 000$ was a lot of money, and she couldn't see a negative side to taking that deal. She was basically not losing anything from taking it. There was no way her small company would make so much money in a week.
"So, 8000$ as a fee, and then a bonus 7000$ if we make 100k$ in a week after the release of the ad. Sure, let me write you up that contract."
Quickly, she handed him a sheet of paper with all the content they had discussed, and he signed it right away. He had just made Yuna her first 15k$ in a single day…he would only take his cut later on. He wanted to please Yuna as much as possible at the beginning.
"Great! Let's go and meet the other model before Yuna arrives."
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► [One Hour Later]
Yuna finally arrived in the building as she saw Darius sitting at a table next to other girls he had never seen before.
She frowned for a bit, wondering about their identities. She didn't show it, but she was a little bit jealous that he was so close to those two, especially after what happened yesterday.
"Hello!" She smiled, completely acting as if everything was totally normal. "It's nice to meet you two!"
The two girls stood up as one of them looked extremely beautiful; the other one was also beautiful, but it wasn't the same. The more beautiful out of the two was tall, around 5'10, and had brown hair with blue eyes. She was also wearing a black training suit that fitted her body, showing her curves perfectly.
"Yuna, this is Kailah! She's a model just like you," Darius said as he put himself between the two of them.
Yuna glanced at Kailah and didn't say anything as she just walked past her. She was mad that Darius had gotten so close to her already.
She looked at the other woman, the one who was in charge of the photoshoot, and said, "Can we do this quickly? I have other things to do in the evening."
Darius had forgotten that her personality wasn't the best because of how close they had gotten yesterday. But it seemed that she was totally back to normal.
However, he ignored the reason why she was acting like this—jealousy.