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  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

I finally woke up from my shocked trance to frown at her. ‘But does he even want a new contract?’ I asked. ‘That journalist heard him say that he hates writing romance books.’ I couldn’t even fathom why someone would hate writing them, especially someone who could write one as well as he could, but there we were.

Hayley shrugged. ‘His books make us a lot of money. So, you need to do all you can to make sure we can keep that going, okay?’

‘Okay,’ I found myself saying because she was impossible to argue with. And what could I say anyway? No, I can’t go because Jake Richards knows how long it’s been since I last had sex and how I think I’ll never find anything close to the romance in the books he writes…

Hayley eyed me. ‘You want to be an agent yourself so why don’t you view this trip as your audition, if you like?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Prove to me you can handle more responsibility, make a success of this trip with Jake and we can talk when you get back about how we can move you from my assistant to being an agent,’ Hayley said.

My heart leapt at the possibility of a promotion. I wasn’t at all thrilled at having to work so closely on my own with Jake – I found it hard to communicate with him and I didn’t understand why he had even said those things about romance books. But Hayley was offering me a chance to step up. A chance I was desperate for. ‘Really?’

‘Show me how much you want it, Freya.’

‘You know I do. I will work really hard out there,’ I said, determination to impress my boss setting in.

Hayley beamed at me. ‘Right answer. And Jake is a pussycat. You tell him what to do and he will do it; he wants to fix this. He’s fully on board. So, get everything booked and next week, you’ll be on your way to New York. Kind of exciting, right?’ She left me, sweeping back into her office, and I watched her go, wishing I could feel the excitement she was talking about.

Hayley thought that Jake was a pussycat?

If you could mistake a tiger for a pussycat.

I had no idea how I was going to even talk to Jake, let alone tell him what to do. Even though I had a big reason to try to do it now.

My dream trip felt like it had the potential to be more of a nightmare instead.

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