Who's Afraid of MR Wolfe? by Hazel Osmond

Author:Hazel Osmond
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781849164184
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Ellie could pinpoint exactly when she knew the Sure & Soft ad was going to be a success. It was at 8.35 a.m. on 5 June, when the woman next to her on the bus started to hum ‘The Thong Song’. It meant more to Ellie than all the slaps on the back at work and gave her a similar thrill to the one she’d felt when she and Edith had watched the ad on TV for the first time.

She still had a spring in her step when she walked into the agency, although as always she scanned reception nervously to make sure Jack wasn’t around. She’d become pretty expert at avoiding him over the past weeks and now there was only one day to go before her holidays. Two glorious Jack-free weeks. Two weeks of not having to worry about whether to move agency or not. Although, seeing as she hadn’t mentioned anything about that to Lesley, the whole plan had proved to be a bit of a non-starter so far.

‘Hi, Ellie,’ Rachel said, as she passed by. ‘Looking forward to your break?’

‘Can’t wait. I’m going to kick back at home and take it easy.’

She would have liked to have stayed and chatted longer, but Rachel’s eyes took on an extra-warm sheen and Ellie guessed she’d spotted Jack arriving. Rachel was back on Jack’s trail since Ad Infinitum had broken the news that Sophie had ‘counted her wolves before they were hatched and had now returned to the singles’ market’.

‘See you, Rachel,’ Ellie said, and scooted towards the stairs. This was a doddle. Now, if she could get the great hulking Yorkshire guy out of her dreams, she could return to normal life.

Upstairs in her office, Lesley and Ian were waiting for her.

‘Here she is,’ Lesley said, jumping up from her seat. ‘Ellie, this photo shoot looks like it’s going to go on all day. I’m probably not going to see you again before you go off.’ She wrapped Ellie in a hug. ‘Have a great time and don’t get up to anything too wild with Edith.’

‘I’ll try not to, although she has promised to introduce me to the delights of bingo and that can get pretty cutthroat.’

‘Hey, you’re not wrong. Megan has a cousin who ended up in A&E after the woman next to her elbowed her in the eye while she was shouting—’

‘Hey, when you two have finished fannying on,’ Ian said, rummaging about in his shoulder bag, ‘perhaps we can go?’ He pulled out his diary and started to flick through it. ‘So, nothing I need to know about before you go off tonight, Ellie? No nasty surprises you’ve left for me?’

‘No. I’ve shredded everything I didn’t get round to doing.’

‘Good lass,’ Ian said, scanning a page in his diary. ‘That’s the spirit … Oh sod it.’ He slammed the diary on the desk before looking a bit shamefaced and picking it up again. ‘You know what it is?’ he said with some force. ‘I need my own Mrs MacEndry to keep me straight.

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