Vanity's Pleasure by Olivia Gaines

Author:Olivia Gaines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Davonshire House Publishing
Published: 2019-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

{18] Time to go to work...

After a quick breakfast and a farewell to her brother- and sister-in-law, Vanity knew she had to get back to work. Will had been kind and made her and Nigel omelets, but she passed on the flipped over eggs and she packed them a lunch and headed downstairs to work. Nigel set up in the corner of her office and checked in with his staff. He made calls, checked on orders, and verified shipments of the fabric to her New York office as well as the fabric that would ship to the manufacturing division in California.

At 11 am, he sat in on her meeting with Jessica and Clarke as they went over in detail the Milan show. He was surprised at how much responsibility they both held and even more so with the vast amount of responsibility that was held by Clarke. He wasn’t just the person who did her hair and make-up, Clarke was the Creative Director for all of Vanity Devon’s fashion shows.

She gave them both marching directions and explained that she needed to see the final designs before she left for London next week and a dry run through the following Thursday when they met her at Nigel’s country estate in the Cotswold District. Nigel added, “It is outside of Gloucester.”

He noticed Jessica making notes, and she looked at him, “Your Grace, is there anywhere to land a plane?” Nigel shook his head no, looking at her with some concern.

Nigel heard a small bell chime and the meeting was ended. It was now time for lunch and he was starving. Vanity removed from the fridge two lunch containers. To Nigel, she handed a chicken salad sandwich with wedges of cheddar and double Gloucester, along with grapes and fresh berries. Jessica had already put on the kettle and he was surprised when his wife’s employees joined them at the table in the break room. Jessica poured his water for his tea and brought over a box of English teas for him to choose from.

During the meal, there was no talk of work. They talked of plans for vacation and Clarke turned the conversation to Nigel, “Your Grace, what is your most favorite thing to do in your down time?”

Nigel sat his teacup down and said, “I love to shoot.” He explained that he truly enjoyed spending as much time as he could at his home in Cotswold where he often would hunt quail or just shoot clays, “I think it is what you would call Skeet shooting.” Jessica asked a few questions, Vanity asked one, and then the conversation moved on.

Nigel listened to them talk then he asked Jessica, “If money were no object, Jessica, what would you love to do?”

Clarke piped in before she had a chance to answer, “I would be in Abu Dhabi!” Nigel only smiled at Clarke but kept his eyes trained on Jessica. She finally answered him, “I would do a month-long travel blog about eating my way through South America.

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