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Subject: Dinner
Beth,
I know we didn’t leave things on a good note this morning, but I look forward to seeing you for dinner tonight. And to making it up to you afterward.
Please.
Yours,
Mr. Intolerable
P.S. - I put a keycard for my place in the outside pocket of your bag.
She smiled at his continued use of her nickname for him; it was meant to be an insult, yet, every time he used it, it seemed like it had become an endearment to him. It still didn’t make up for how he had treated her, or that he didn’t even ask her about dinner, just assumed that she would be coming back to his apartment -with her very own keycard!It was like the weight of what she had agreed to had sunk in; she was living with Darcy and the thought gave her goosebumps.
At least he said please.
It was still a long way from an apology, or a request - the nagging voice inside her head reminded her.
You know you want to be made up to.
She crossed her legs at the surge of desire that spread through her; she did, but now wasn’t the time to think about that. She needed to stay strong. Opening up a new message, she responded:
Subject: Re: Dinner AND Conversation
Mr. Intolerable,
You did not leave things on a good note this morning; however, I look forward to talking to you at dinner tonight. And being apologized to afterward.
Thank you,
Beth
Send. She clicked the button before she had a chance to second-guess her decisive tone; he needed to know that she meant business.
Deleting his email, she refocused her thoughts back to work. Opening up two more emails, she messaged her assistants giving them the pertinent details for the events that they needed to supervise this weekend.
Cindy,
You’ll be at the Patterson “Bullseye” event on Saturday at the Midtown Barnes & Noble. We will need photos of the crowd, James with some of his readers, as well as him autographing copies. I also want you to Snapchat during set-up andduring the event. We will need quotes from readers before/after meeting James and if you could Facebook Live interview some of the crowd on James’ account that would be great.
We will meet on Monday to go over the images and interviews to create copy to go out.
Thanks,
Beth
Alaina,
You’ll be in charge of the ABC Kitchen soft opening on Friday night from 8-11pm. I want you there getting photos of the chefs and staff before the event starts and while the food is being prepped. Chef interview - “What made you want to pursue this culinary line? What are your favorite options on the menu?” etc; feel free to live feed some of the Q&A’s as well. Once the food is out, pics/video/snapchat of the party and initial reviews of the food - the basics.
You’ve handled these before; if you could have a rough draft of the social and print copy to go out to me on Monday that would be great.
Thanks,
Beth
After making sure her team had everything they needed for the weekend, she ran next door to Starbucks to grab a coffee and a sandwich for lunch. When she got back up to her office, she decided to keep working while she ate and proceeded to do some preliminary research on her new client, Caroline Bingley. She thought about just calling Jane to see what she knew of her future sister-in-law but she didn’t feel like bugging her sister again today. So, Beth began with the easiest, yet, most unreliable source: Google.
