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mention everything else—”
    He nods. “Don’t worry about that. I will sort it all out for you, but what do you want to do?”
    “Umm…the same old usual I guess?”
    Gabe purses his lips, unimpressed with my answer. Suddenly, he clicks his fingers. “Oh my god, I have an idea!”
    “What?”
    He gazes at me knowingly. “Let’s do a wedding, somewhere out of Sydney.”
    I roll my eyes. Not this again. “No, that was a once off. We focus on Australian weddings—”
    “We specialise in Day of Wedding coordination, especially speedy last minute weddings. Technically, that can be anywhere. We killed it on our assignment in Bali when the client needed someone to help out a week before the day. Remember how we thought it was going to be a total disaster ‘cause it was our first time overseas, but we thrived in the different surrounding?”
    “Yeah I remember that wedding,” Not only do I remember it, it forced me to tackle my fear of heights head on, and I failed miserably. But from now on, I will always remember it as the time when Adam cheated on me, leaving me to be the drunken mess I am now.
    I hiccup quietly, clamping a hand on my mouth.
    He giggles. “So, you’re not keen then?”
    “Of course, I’ll consider it, but as I said we do Sydney weddings. Bali was a once off.”
    He glances at me speculatively. “I beg to differ. We’ve had tons of comments on our Facebook page, people from the UK, America…”
    “Yeah, they’re just comments on how pretty the weddings are. They’re not genuine enquiries.”
    “Fine, you’re right. But they could be enquiries if we goaded them a bit more.”
    I smile. “Well, you are good at the goad. I’m keen, but I just want to focus on the core of what I do, and that is providing the perfect day no matter how urgent it is. Plenty of brides here who need my help.”
    “I mean; you don’t have an excuse to say no now…” he trails off.
    I stare at him, my face permanently warm now. “Come on, spill.”
    “That woman who you planned her first wedding for, she was getting married a second time in Hawaii and she asked you to plan for her again. We could have gone to Hawaii! But somebody wanted to keep Mr Serial Clinger happy…”
    “I didn’t say no because of Adam, we had two other weddings at that point, remember?” I retort, annoyed at having to defend myself, although it’s an uphill battle. He’s right. Adam would get annoyed if I was gone even half a week. He would have hit the ceiling if I went away for several weeks, so I always stuck to Sydney weddings, and only an occasional one interstate.
    He rolls his eyes “ Fine. It was just a suggestion. Think of the places we could go…” I see the stars in his eyes; he is already day-dreaming.
    “You’re right. I did stay because of Adam.”
    He pushes his ear out, “Can you repeat that again? Lacey Ryan admitting she is wrong? I think I need to record this.”
    “I didn’t say I was wrong!” I grab a pillow and hit him gently with it. “It’s a good idea but an unfeasible one.”
    “Anyway, I asked because I may or may not have something in the works.”
    I widen my eyes. “What is it?”
    “Let me take care of it. But if we got asked to plan a destination wedding right this second, would you say yes?”
    What an odd choice of words. Right this second? “Yeah, I would.”
    Gabe stares at me, trying to read my face. “Are you absolutely sure you want to take on more work now?”
    I would rather do what I love than drown in self-pity. “I do.”
    The words I’m supposed to say to Adam tomorrow, I’m saying to Gabe. How pitiful.
    “Fab! I shall have an update for you real soon,” he gets off the couch and runs to his desk which is just a few feet away. An update? On what?
    Gabe almost bounces off the chair and fires up the laptop, scrolling the screen furiously.
    “Okay you just relax, and let me sort it out. I’ll let you know when it happens.” When? Not if?
    “You’re not working