290 Gallery, morning, Charlie and Andy, OTA/MW
Blinking sleepily, because he STILL reckoned going East was worse than going West, Charlie sat in his office and tried to catch up on his paperwork while Andy brought him up to date with recent events.
As she talked she made coffee and kept an ear open for the front of house staff. Sadie was working today and still hadn't grasped that it was polite to look up from her magazine when someone entered the gallery when she wasn't being observed by one of the managers. With Andy, Charlie or Leena in attendance she was a little ray of sunshine.
"The building is going well," she said. "Oh and Amesh tried to get in touch with you last week but I didn't give him your mobile number so he said he'd write instead."
Charlie looked at the pile of mail and nodded. "The Clinton Agency repayments should be coming through about now. I must admit that I've been counting on it." He grinned as she passed him his coffee and grabbed her hand. "But that doesn't mean I can't treat the people who are nice to me," he said and took a box from his pocket and placed it in her palm.
"Oh," Andy said with a smile - Mimi had told her she had seen Charlie buying Koa wood pendants. Then she opened it and blinked.
"Oh," she said again, feeling horribly guilty. "I - um - oh, Charlie, it's lovely."
"So are you," Charlie said and bent his head to his work as Andy heard the bell above the door jingle.