I pulled back, my own eyes welling up. ‘And yes. As long as Simon says it’s okay, I’ll be your agent! We’ll make it work. I’d love to help your career in any way I can, as you’ve helped me! And we’ll work out how to tell Hayley together.’

‘Oh, thanks Freya, it’s going to be so much fun! I need to tell Aiden; he’s been encouraging me to ask you for weeks. He’s probably sick of me talking about it,’ she said as we let each other go and sat back down.

‘He’s not sick of you talking about anything,’ I assured her. I’d seen them together and they were head over heels. I looked at the sparking diamond band on her ring finger. ‘I still can’t believe you two eloped, though,’ I said for maybe the hundredth time. Soon after Jake and I got together, Liv and Aiden went away to Scotland for a few days. They shocked all their family and friends by coming back married. Liv said Aiden had proposed on holiday and they had been so happy and excited that when they realised how close they were to Gretna Green, they had just gone to look around but there had been a cancellation so on the spur of the moment, they’d decided to jump straight into it.

‘We’ll throw a huge wedding party soon,’ Liv promised, her eyes sparkling. She was even more of a hopeless romantic than me and she and Aiden had definitely got carried away in Scotland. I was so happy for them. They’d been together for a while and were a perfect match. ‘God, we have lots to celebrate, don’t we?’

‘The past few weeks have been crazy,’ I said, shaking my head in wonder. So much had happened since the day Hayley had asked me to accompany Jake to New York. I had been so close to refusing to go. Thank goodness I hadn’t done that.

After lunch, I gave Liv a huge hug and told her I’d speak to Simon about us signing her to the agency and then I went back into the office to find Simon so we could call Davis with the good news.

He answered instantly when we called him from Simon’s desk. ‘What’s happening?’ he said in lieu of ‘hello’.

‘I’m really sorry, Davis,’ Simon said dully, throwing me a wink.

I let out a melodramatic sigh. ‘It’s such a shame…’

‘How bad is it?’ Davis asked tightly.

‘Look, we all tried our best,’ Simon said. ‘We should be proud of ourselves.’

I bit my lip to stop myself from giggling.

‘I’m sitting down. Just tell me. I’m a big boy. I can handle it,’ Davis said.