MAYA: DO NOT.
CHLOE: She said it.
AMBER: Madison said it.
LILY: We're all saying it.
MAYA: GOODNIGHT
EMILY: She sent the pitch and she's going to sleep and she has a Daddy.
HOLLY: Best week ever.
MAYA: Best week ever.
CHAPTER 9
Justin says yes to the pitch Tuesday morning.
Not a modified yes. Not a ‘let's discuss the terms’. A yes to the revised rates and a note that says: I should have offered this to you in the invitation. Consider it the plan going forward.
I read it three times.
Then I put the phone face-down on the desk and sit very still for a moment.
It's real.
The Evergreen is my anchor client. The content series is funded. The gap the big client left is not closed but it's bridgeable, and I know what the bridge is made of now.
I text Anthony first.
Me: He said yes. Full rates.
The response comes in forty seconds, which for a man who moves through the world as unhurriedly as Anthony Rossi is essentially immediate.
Anthony: I know. He told me this morning.
Me: He told you?
Anthony: I may have had a conversation with him yesterday.
Me: Anthony.
Anthony: You wrote a good pitch. He needed to see it. I pointed that out.
He went to Justin. He went to Justin and advocated for the pitch before I'd sent it, probably, or the moment I did. He didn't tell me he was going to. He just did it.
I have a very complicated set of feelings about this and the most complicated one is that I love it and I need to also say something about it.
Me: I need to talk to you about that.
Anthony: I figured you would. Come find me when you're done celebrating.
Me: What makes you think I'm celebrating?
Anthony: Because you should be. Give yourself twenty minutes.
He's giving me permission to feel the good thing before I confront him about talking to Justin without me.
