“Winner of the Quantum University fashion show, you are the most promising new talent that H & C INC. has handpicked. Are you sure you’re not going to come with me to the office and meet some of your future colleagues?” he asked in a low voice.

Her eyes lit up. “May I?”

“Yes,” he said in surprise, “You’re... looking forward to it?”

She nodded happily. “You bet!”

Suddenly, she said hastily, as if she had remembered something, “But after I go there, I’ll be just an ...