All Chapters of Our Secret Identities: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

“Is Ricky still here?” Simone asks Tiffany and Katrina.“I think he left after he told me you wanted to see me in your office” Katrina answers, taking the empty chair in front of Simone’s desk.“Thanks for coming in” Simone smiles, picking up the paperwork Angela gave to her. “I wasn’t sure what her intentions were. Every one of the models we have, come from her management agency. That’s why we all knew each other and worked at Lively Design Studios.”“Speaking of which” Tiffany grins, opening the emails on her laptop. “Guess who asked if we could supply models for the up-and-coming Spring runway show. Wait until Angela finds out she’s lost their contract.”“You’re kidding?” Simone gasps, her eyes going wide. “I’m not concerned with Angela. That’s between her and Mark. I never thought Mark would want to come to me.”“Mark didn’t have a say” Tiffany laughs, turning her laptop around for Simone to read. ‘We took a vote. 7 to 1 to use your models in our next runway show.’ “Mark was outvo

Simone felt numb as she entered Emmett’s office. She couldn’t lose her father; he hasn’t met his granddaughter. ‘He is only 52; how can he have cancer’ she says to herself. “I have to go to Saint Anthony’s Medical Hospital. Dad’s just come out of surgery to remove a cancerous cell from his bowel” Simone says her voice flat and expressionless. “They just called me to tell me he’s fine and the surgery was a success.”‘What the fuck?’ Emmett screams in his mind. “I’m going with you” Emmett says, grabbing his jacket and keys. “You can’t go there by yourself.”“I’ll be fine. You have a business to run” Simone objects, walking out the door.“You do too.” Emmett calls out, chasing after her. “I’m not going to argue with you. I am going; whether you like it or not.” Simone wasn’t in the mood to argue either, she nods, stepping onto the elevator with Emmett; “come here” he murmurs, putting his arms around her.The trip to the hospital was a quiet one. Emmett held Simone’s hand, drawing circles

“You were brilliant today; handling the situation with Rebecca” Emmett says, crawling into bed next to Simone. “I was turned on at your decisiveness. I need to see it more often.”“I needed to be” Simone answers, turning to face Emmett. ‘He wants to see decisiveness; I will show him decisiveness’ she grins inwardly. “Angie only cares about the bottom figure; she doesn’t care about the wellbeing of who she was managing. The moment Rebecca was worried about the man following her; she should have alerted the authorities and at least told Beck to hire someone to protect her, if she didn’t have someone able to do that.”“And that is what makes you a good boss and her a shitty one” he says, giving Simone a peck on her nose.“Maybe so; the only way to handle entitled people like her, is put them in their place” Simone states, raising an elbow on her pillow. “She actually had the nerve to think I would accept a proposal that will kill my agency before it started.”“From what Tiff was saying;

Emmett followed Simone into her office; “Is there something you wanted Mr Spencer?” Simone asks, turning to face him from behind her desk. “I’m not late with my rent for the office space, am I?”“You gave me your rent last night” Emmett answers, grinning at her. “I believe you are in advance as you paid twice.”“I only received the email this morning asking if I could be in the fashion show” Simone tells him, sitting down at her desk. “Holly has recently become pregnant herself and decided to do a maternity line. She thought it would be good to have a pregnant model instead of all the models having fake stomachs. I haven’t said yes yet; I was just letting you know; I was going to say yes.”“I wouldn’t stop you, if you wanted to do it” Emmett insists taking a seat in front of her desk.“Then why are you here?” Simone asks, glancing at him.Emmett wiggles his eyebrows at her. “Men; only thinking with their cocks” she mutters, rolling her eyes at him.“I was hoping you could tell me more

The following morning; Lester and Vince had just landed at Rocky Valley airport. “Was it worth the trip?” Emmett asks over the phone.“Somewhat. They are worse off than we originally thought” Lester responds, collecting his bag before heading into the terminal with Vince. “Their whole structure needs remodelling and the chief editor is being ignored by the board of directors.”“Let me guess; Bald old men, smoking a cigar and drinking a brandy who think they know what they are doing?” Emmett chuckles down the line.“Pretty much” Lester laughs as Vince walks ahead of him through the terminal doors. He notices Vince nudging his head to the side and glances over to see who he was signalling.“Why is Jason and Beck here?” Lester asks Emmett down the phone; eyeing Jason and Beck walking away with a woman in front of him. He could only make out the top of the lady’s head because it was concealed under a scarf.Emmett closed his eyes at the other end of his phone. ‘Damn it; her plane must hav