“Much better. The swelling has already gone down a lot, so it’ll probably heal in no time,” Sally replied as
she gently touched the bandage around her head.
Natalie nodded. “That’s good to hear.”
“Nat, I actually needed to talk to you about something,” Sally suddenly said.
Shane gently tugged the two kids upstairs. “I’ll get them ready for bed.”
Natalie knew he wanted to give Sally and herself space to talk. With a smile, she replied, “Okay. I’ll
head upstairs right after this.”
Shane nodded and brought the kids to their rooms.
Sally chuckled. “D*mn, did Mr. Shane go to university to learn how to be a good husband? He’s so
attentive now.”
Natalie chuckled sheepishly. “So, what did you need to ask me about?”
“Well, I worked on a magazine shoot yesterday. It’s for a magazine that’s pretty well-known in the music
community, and they’re planning a super big project. They want to gather the top twenty hottest artists of
the current generation and release a never-before-seen publication.”
Natalie nodded in understanding.
Basically, they wanted to release an edition with the top twenty most popular artists as of right now.
“That’s pretty ambitious,” she said with a raised brow.
It wasn’t hard to figure out how well that edition of the magazine would be selling.
“Yeah, it is. The magazine company put in a lot of money to hire all these artists, and among all that were
the clothes. They wanted to have complete discretion over the outfits and reached out to a few high-
class designers, but-”
“Let me guess, they were turned down?” Natalie asked.
Sally nodded. “Pretty much. There’s a conference between high-class designers that happens to clash
with the deadline for the magazine’s outfits, so all of them said no.”
“Oh, I’ve heard about the annual designer conference. Seems like that magazine company has pretty
bad timing.” Natalie chuckled.
Sally took a sip of water before continuing, “That’s why the magazine company decided to set their sights
a bit more leniently. They found me when I was modeling one of your designs on the runway, so they
contacted me again after yesterday’s shoot and asked if I could pull some strings with you.”
“Hold on,” Natalie lifted a hand. “You’re saying they want me to design for them?”
“Yeah! They said your last two designs for the competition were pretty good, so they wanted to get in
touch. What do you think?” Sally glanced at Natalie.
Natalie was intrigued.
Sally could see the interest in Natalie’s eyes and tugged her hand. “Just try out, Nat. It’s a big opportunity
to get to design for so many famous artists at once. You have to seize it.”
After Sally’s advice, Natalie took a deep breath and nodded. “Okay, I’ll go for it.”
“Great! I’ll let them know right away,” Sally said as she pulled out her phone and made a call.
Natalie continued sipping her tea.
Sally hung up after about two minutes.
“They asked me if you could stop by tomorrow to talk about the details,” Sally said.
With a smile, Natalie replied, “Sure. Come pick me up tomorrow.”
“Of course,” Sally said as she nodded.
Natalie put her cup down and got up. “Okay, I’m gonna head upstairs now.”
“Go ahead. Goodnight,” Sally said with a wave of her hand.
Natalie chuckled before walking upstairs.
The two kids were playing in their own room. After Natalie checked in on them, she closed their room
door quietly and walked into the main bedroom.
“You’re back,” Shane’s low voice piped up as Natalie entered.
She nodded.
“What did you talk about?” he asked as he walked over.
Natalie stretched lazily as she told him everything.
Shane raised an eyebrow. “That’s a pretty good magazine. It ranks pretty highly worldwide, so designing
outfits for their photoshoot is going to be a good debut for you. I bet other artists will come to you for their
outfits after that magazine gets released.”
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