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A sudden pang of homesickness for all that she’d left behind twisted inside her as she thought about the old friends she hadn’t seen in over a decade
"Mary?" Jack’s eyes were concerned "Is everything all right?"
She forced her lips up into a smile "Of course it is We’re here to celebrate, after all"
Before he could probe further, she followed his partners into the bar and slid onto an open stool Howie’s girlfriend Layla ca about how excited she was to rateful when Larry appeared with a bottle of cha wohed at his obvious hyperbole and held her glass up even higher "To the three fabulous, a men who invented the Pocket Planner!"
The five of thelasses and toasted to the hopes of continued success Mary had always enjoyed chane, but with Jack beside her, all of her senses were on especially high alert The bubbles felt crisper, the wine sweeter, the effect of the fizzy liquor headier
When she noticed that Larry had pulled out a pen and wasnotes on a napkin, Jack leaned over and said, "His brain rarely shuts off Even," Jack said pointedly, "e’re here to celebrate rather than work"
"That’s one of the things I like about the three of you You’re all so co So passionate about it And," she said as she looked at how comfortable they ith each other after so ether, "you seem more like brothers than business partners"
Larry held up the list he’d hest level action items" He pointed to the first one with the tip of his pen "Do you think you’ll be able to get that great photographer you worked with in Union Square to work on this can with us?"
"I hope so I’m sure Gerry will be as excited about it as I am, and even if he’s busy, I’ll do nore the warning looks Jack was shooting hiet the word out by Christmas, we need to shoot the first ad by Monday, so--"
"Don’t worry," she promised hirapher scheduled by Monday " With Jack so near her like this, Mary decided it would be a very good idea to keep herself wholly focused on business rather than how good he smelled, or how deep and dark brown his eyes were "In fact, while we’re here, why don’t we do so about how you’d like to set up the ads?"
For the next thirtyout ideas from what she’d learned in her shoots over the past decade, most of which were very well received by Jack and his partners