“But tonight I’m still going to order takeout and eat at home alone.”
I pointed my finger at her and grabbed the dress, leaving my parents’ house without another word.
I thought about how my mom was right. Even with all the teasing from her and my dad, I needed to find something in life that wasn’t just me waking up and going to work then coming back home.
I opened the door to my house and put the dress down on the couch. I plopped down next to it, also thinking about the conversation I had with Max the other day at work. He had offered me something that could change my entire life working at The Ink Well.
He wanted me to train Lilly to take over my position as Greg’s executive assistant, which I was fine with because that girl had a serious crush on him, even if she wasn’t willing to admit it, but I wasn’t going to pry. The reason why he wanted me to train her was even crazier. Somehow Max had come across my photos on a stock site, a way I could make quick cash, and he had fallen in love with the photos I took.
He wanted me to exclusively take photos for the company, and he would double my salary and I could stay in finance. It would be just when we needed covers. I would go out, find the models, and get the photos specifically for the books. It was something exclusive we could offer our clients, which would take us to the next level.
I just didn’t know what to say. It was something I had always stayed away from. I didn’t mind selling my photos as stock photos, because I was able to still take photos as a hobby, rather than a job. But now, if I chose this route, my whole world would change. I would be taking photos of specific people in certain ways that matched each book we had. It just wasn’t something I had ever thought I would do, but Max believed in me.
I laid my head back on the couch cushion, trying to figure out how I could use this to my advantage.
If I said yes, I would need help, but I didn’t want Jack’s help. He was the only one of the four who never actually read the books, just used notes. No, if I was going to do this, I wanted Chase’s help. It would be a way for me to be closer to him and around him more. Since we moved into our new building I almost never saw him.
The first day there I decided not to wait for him because I didn’t want to be waiting on the second floor all by myself to see if he would come. We had never had an agreement, so I never thought anything about it and he never brought it up. But now we could get back into the swing of things and work together more. Even get into our old routine of him walking me out of the building and to my car.
I missed that.
Having that notion sparked more of an interest in my heart and my heart settled on the choice in seconds.
I was going to say yes to this, but only if I could have Chase too.
