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  2. Dedication
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  54. EPILOGUE
  55. THANK YOU!
  56. MORE FROM VICTORIA WALTERS
  57. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  58. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  59. ALSO BY VICTORIA WALTERS
  60. Boldwood Ever After
  61. About Boldwood Books

My phone was on silent on the table between us and I could see it start to light up with notifications. I wondered what was going on. I tried to concentrate on this meeting, though. ‘So, let’s get all that done today and see how it goes, and fingers crossed, we hear from Jake too. We could also get proof copies sent out to a few more romance authors. I bet my cousin, Liv Jones, would read it if I asked her.’ I wrote down a reminder in my notebook.

‘I also emailed my editor and told him to add in a dedication to my girlfriend,’ Davis said. ‘He was cagey about the book, saying they would be having a meeting sometime this week about it, but he would include it.’ He shrugged. ‘All we can do now is wait and see.’

‘I think you’ll get a good response and public opinion should go a long way,’ I told him.

‘Great,’ Simon said. ‘Davis, head off and get started on those social media posts. We’ll share them from the agency account too and let’s catch up on a phone call before close of business. Freya, I have to go out to a meeting but you’re okay getting settled in, aren’t you?’

I nodded. ‘Yes. I’m going to email any contacts I made when working with Hayley to tell them I’m here now, and I’ll look at your apology, Davis.’ We all headed off and I looked at my phone as I walked back to my new desk. Most of the messages were from Liv, in capitals with exclamation marks, demanding to know why I wasn’t responding to the big news. There was also one from Tessa. And Ellen at my old workplace. I frowned and scrolled back to Liv’s first message to work out why everyone was messaging me.

JAKE HAS MOVED PUBLISHERS!! TO MINE!! HE WILL NOW BE WITH TURN THE PAGES! DID YOU KNOW? THIS IS HUGE! OMG!

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I sank into my new chair, ignoring the great view of the Thames I now had, and stared at my phone and re-read Liv’s message about Jake three more times until it had properly sunk in.

So, Jake had turned down the offer from his current publishers. The huge deal Hayley had secured him. No wonder he went in to see her for a meeting. And it explained the tension in her office after I left. I assumed he had told her he wanted to move somewhere new as they hadn’t supported him during the article debacle. And Hayley couldn’t refuse with him able to destroy her reputation. My fingers hovered over my phone. I wanted to ask him what she had said. How he felt about leaving where his books had always been published.