Chapter 24

We arrive at work the next day and the staff applaud us as we enter. June races towards us with the newspaper and reads out the reviews.

‘Ace Brightly has done it again! His designs were outstanding and they outshined everyone else’s.’

June continues to read them all out as she follows us into the elevator and into our office. She smiles and puts the newspaper on Ace’s desk.

‘Congratulations, Mr Brightly, on the great reviews,’ she says, and leaves the room. Ace pulls some parchment from his drawer and begins sketching, and I open the laptop and begin editing. Before we know it, it’s lunchtime.

‘I’m going downstairs and having lunch with the ladies today,’ I smile. Ace nods and I give him a kiss on the cheek before leaving. I find Carol, Lana, Cleo and the rest of the girls in the breakroom.

‘Hey girls,’ I say as I enter. They hug me and give me air kisses. Cleo pulls up a chair beside her.

‘Thanks.’ I sit down in the chair beside her.

‘I’m glad you’re here. I was going to ask the lad