After returning to her desk, Naomi Hart spent the entire day buried in drafts.
The deadline for the design project was brutal. Every spare minute had to go into it.
Near closing time she finally lifted her head, rolled her shoulders, and stretched the stiffness from her neck.
“Naomi, our department is doing a team-building dinner tonight. You’re coming with us.”
A colleague packing up nearby threw the invitation over casually.
Naomi hesitated. She still had to pick Lily up from school. There was no time.
She opened her mouth to decline, but the woman across the aisle leaned in, eyes bright.
“Come on! This whole night is basically because of you. If you hadn’t landed Mr. Voss’s project, none of us would be joining the other departments for this. You’re the star of the evening, you ha
