Chapter 337
Chapter 337:
“He won’t. He’s decent. When you and Ashton finally lock it down, I’ll bring Cade and we’ll double date p>
I gave her a nod. “As long as you’re not going in blind. I’ve got to get back p>
“Got it. I’ll text when the cake’s ready p>
I left Sugar & Whim and crossed the street to the studio.
Everything inside buzzed.
Priya was hunched over a prototype at her desk, muttering about bezels.
Daniel sat cross-legged on the floor with his laptop, cursing at the dev server.
The final version of my competition pieces had just been cast.
If the numbers held, we’d sell out within a week.
But the backend was a mess.
Every time the site got a spike in traffic, it choked like it was built in 2004.
Daniel needed to rip it apart and rebuild something that wouldn’t crash if someone so much as sneezed on it.
The design contest had stirred up a lot more attention than we’d expected.
My follower count tripled in four days.
A few celebrities who’d ghosted me last month suddenly crawled back with polite emails and fake apologies.
One of them had already signed the paperwork this morning.
I didn’t bother pretending I wasn’t enjoying the turnaround.
By three, we were all running on fumes.
I ordered a stack of pastries and iced drinks from Yvaine’s shop and told Priya and Daniel to stop working for ten minutes or I’d start unplugging things.
We sat upstairs on the narrow mezzanine.
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Daniel picked the frosting off a lemon cupcake and popped it into his mouth.
He let out a shout with his mouth still half-full. “Holy shit, Rowan Hale’s in Skyline City p>
Priya looked up from her drink. “Who p>
“You don’t know Rowan Hale?” Daniel gaped at her like she’d just asked if the sky was blue. “She’s a singer. She was based overseas for ages, barely known here. But I used to blast her album on repeat in college. I even went to her concert in Amsterdam. Her voice? Unreal. If she starts releasing stuff here, the whole industry’s screwed. No one’s ready p>
“I saw her in Riverbend,” I said. “She was one of the judges p>
“Right, that’s what I mean!” Daniel pointed a fork at me. “She didn’t promote it at all. If I’d known she was there, I’d have found a way in. I would’ve begged for an autograph, I swear. Now she’s in Skyline, I might actually get a chance to run into her. Not that I’d be able to speak like a human if I did p>
“How do you know she’s here p>