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Anastasia blinked and looked up at Felicia, who carefully checked the calendar before responding, “If you are able to prepare the design in three days, it’s possible to see the final product by the end of the month.”
“Okay, I’ll try my best to prepare the draft in three days.” Anastasia promised.
“That’s great. My friend hopes to have two English letters engraved on the lock, which are the initials of the last names of her and her boyfriend.”
Anastasia immediately grabbed her notebook. “Sure. What are the letters, though?”
“The initial of her boyfriend’s last name is the letter ‘P’, while hers is the letter ‘S’. She wants a heart shaped design at the center of the lock.”
“Sure. No problem. I’ll add that in the design.” Anastasia nodded.
“Great. How about the price?”
Felicia chimed in, “What’s your friend’s budget?”
“About 5 million.”
Anastasia and Felicia exchanged glances. It seems like this lady’s friend is wealthy! That’s a really handsome budget.
“I see. Please have faith in Miss Tillman. She will definitely present you with the best design. Besides, the materials that we will be using and our craftsmanship are no doubt one of the very best in the industry.”
“Okay, I’ll first pay 2 million as a deposit on behalf of my friend, and the balance will be paid after the final product is ready.”
Thereafter, Felicia led the lady out of the office while Anastasia was suddenly very motivated. She never thought that such a generous order, which allowed her to obtain a commission of 3 percent as well as a year-end bonus, would present itself to her. To her, this was certainly a small fortune.
When she was about to use her phone to do a calculation, a message popped up on her screen. It was a message from Elliot.
‘I’ll deal with it. Anastasia’s heart skipped a beat when she saw his message. What does he mean?
About ten minutes after Felicia had seen the female client out, she knocked on Anastasia’s door and said, “Anastasia, please try your best to come out with the design draft in three days’ time, even if you have to work overtime. You must not let the client down.”
“Sure. I’ll work overtime to come out with the draft,” Anastasia promised. The requested design elements happened to be those that she was skillful in, so the work wouldn’t be much of a hassle for her.
Felicia had faith in Anastasia’s quality of work, so the former left after a short discussion.
When Anastasia was staring at the sketch in an attempt to capture inspiration when it struck, Nigel was seen entering her office. He looked at her apologetically and muttered, “Anastasia, I’ll treat you and Jared to a meal another day. I have something else to attend to tonight.”
Anastasia, who wasn’t surprised at all to hear that, pursed her lips and flashed a smile at him. “No worries. We can always do that when you are free.”
“I just received the news that an overseas company will be holding their team-building event in my hotel, so I have to rush back to attend a meeting,” Nigel explained in frustration, to which
Anastasia responded, “Please go ahead with your business. You have just taken over the company; you must not disappoint your father.”
Nigel felt helpless as well. He finally had the time to invite Anastasia to dinner, but the plan was still ruined in the end.
After seeing him off, Anastasia fell into a daze. Elliot actually made such a huge move just to eat my cooking? He actually gave Nigel the profit that could be generated from the team-building event of the overseas company?
Just then, her landline rang, and she picked up the call. “Hello, who’s on the line?”
“Has he left?” A sonorous voice rang from the other end of the line, leaving Anastasia speechless. She then questioned, “Did you really have to drive him away?”
“What’s wrong? Or were you looking forward to having dinner with him?” The man’s voice from the other end suddenly took on a menacing edge.
“Alright! I’ll go and buy some groceries tonight.” At that point, Anastasia had no choice but to go through the trouble of making him dinner.
However, the man on the other end refused to give up. “Answer my question.”
Anastasia, however, chose to say something that would piss him off, probably because she didn’t want him to be too complacent. “Yes, I was looking forward to it!”
As soon as she said that, the call was ended by the other person, which obviously suggested that the man was enraged.
Holding the beeping handset in her hand, Anastasia was stunned. Why is this man acting like a child who is always mad? Besides, who is he to be mad at me anyway?! I just can’t seem to figure out what’s going on in his mind. Nevertheless, she had no intention to figure it out anyway, because she had an urgent custom-made order that she had to complete at hand.
Meanwhile, the lady who had just exited the Bourgeois Jewelry Atelier soon arrived at the opposite street. She opened the car door of a red Ferrari and got into the vehicle. Hayley was seen sitting in the driver’s seat.
“Did everything go well?” Hayley asked.
“Hayley, where did you get the money from? Are you really going to order a custom-made jewelry worth 5 million?”
“I-I’m just helping a friend to make that order. It’s not my money,” Hayley explained, but she couldn’t help feeling conceited deep down.
Anastasia certainly wouldn’t expect that she would be designing matching couple necklaces for Elliot and Hayley. The latter just couldn’t wait to see Anastasia’s reaction on the day Hayley went to collect the necklaces.
“You take a cab back. I have something else to do.” Hayley instructed the lady.
That lady used to be Hayley’s friend. At present, she left the car in satisfaction, holding the 2,000 that she had earned for her service.
On the other hand, Hayley touched up her make up and picked up the dessert that she had bought before she contently alighted from the car. Then, she walked toward the Bourgeois Jewelry Atelier.
On the way there, she reached for her phone and gave a call to May. “May, ask Anastasia to go to Elliot’s office in five minutes. Just ask her to go there without telling her the purpose.”
“Sure, Miss Seymour!” May immediately agreed.
When Hayley walked past the reception counter, the four receptionists instantly looked at her respectfully. “Welcome, Miss Seymour.”
In response, Hayley revealed an elegant yet arrogant smile before she took an elevator and went straight to the president’s office on the 8th floor.
Meanwhile in the president’s office, Elliot was finishing up his work so that he could get off work earlier to go grocery shopping with Anastasia.
At that moment, Rey knocked on the door from outside and reported, “President Presgrave, Miss Seymour is here.”
A frown appeared between Elliot’s brows when he heard that. “Let her in.”
Thereafter, Hayley came in, flashing a charming smile at him as she sweetly announced, “Elliot, I’ve brought you some refreshments.”
As a matter of fact, she specially came at that time as she had planned to invite Elliot out for dinner.
“Please don’t give me all these again. I don’t like desserts,” Elliot muttered as he leaned his back against the chair. The white shirt on him made him seem like a celibate, and he looked languid and charming at the moment.
Hayley’s heart started to race at that. No woman could resist such a dazzling and elegant man.
And so, she walked toward Elliot step by step. Anastasia will be arriving at any moment now, Hayley thought to herself, as she had been keeping track of the time.
Currently, Anastasia, who had been informed by May to go to Elliot’s office, did not suspect anything and was on her way upstairs. She merely wondered to herself the reason the man wished to see her. Could it be that he is going to use work as an excuse to scold me? she pondered.