Ivan shrugged it off. “All you have to do is ask,” he told her. “And he can either say yes or no.” He smiled and added, “Just like you do. You tell me no all the time. He just didn’t.”

That caught Lucina off guard. She smiled out the window and refused to comment on it. She mumbled, “It looks like I’m the only one telling you no these days.”

Ivan was hesitant to comment on that. Was she referring to his business or his personal life? Did she know about his relations with Christina and Ashley? Sleeping with two of the twenty-five or so girls he had met through Lucina’s camp was hardly excessive, in his opinion. Nevertheless, Ivan was curious enough to ask about it.

“What do you mean, you’re the only one telling me no?”

“I mean that a lot of things have come far too easy for you,” she answered.

“Is that a bad thing? It’s not like I’m not working for it.”

Lucina held on to her silence for a moment. Then she answered, “I don’t know.”

Ivan said, “Just look at it this way. My good fortune has been your good fortune, right? So why complain about it? Let’s just keep rolling sevens and elevens.”

FOR THE LARGE YACHT and cruise ship promotions, Ivan and Lucina copied the basic ideas of the luxury car show events, but with a few major changes. Since a cruise could never be as public as a park, they created a hundred-dollar cruise party, open to the paying public and hosted by MTV’s Ananda Lewis, who had moved on to host her own television talk show. They also solicited a celebrity guest appearance from Latina movie star Jessica Alba.

The hundred dollars would include a six-hour celebrity-hosted cruise, with a dinner buffet, two free drink tickets, a $25-off cruise coupon, and a main ballroom party for an eight-hundred-capacity crowd. Red Face Lion would DJ, and Ivan, Lucina, and their staff would do their normal thing to keep the cruise lively. Since Ivan no longer moved without the San Diego media and corporate sponsors involved, they expected another major turnout, even at the steeper price tag.

“Then we’ll do radio and website promotion giveaways. But we can’t select a whole random cruise. We have to make sure folks take it seriously,” Ivan suggested. “Cruises aren’t cheap.”

For his media and website promotions, Ivan stated, “We at IDPromotions.com are known for our unique qualities, and we view all our events as an investment well spent for first-class experiences.”