CHAPTER 1
LOVE WAITS
Kwon Yuri rested her chin in her palm, her eyes scanning the drawing she’d been tinkering with for the last two hours. Their deadline was approaching but there were only so many ways to advertise pre-owned cars. She dropped her pencil and shoved the drawing away in frustration.
“Why don’t you let Darrell give it a try?”
Yuri shot a wry glance at SooYoung, her business partner. “Because he uses a computer for all of his designs, that’s why.”
“So do you.”
“Not until I have my ideas down with pencil first,” she said as she leaned back with a sigh.
“These college kids nowadays, they don’t have to have an original thought. They just copy and paste images and then call it good.”
SooYoung laughed. “You’re only cranky because you hate car ads. You always have. Why did you take on this account in the first place?”
“Oh? So you think we’re thriving enough that we can be selective in our choices?” Yuri stood and held up her coffee cup in a silent question. SooYoung shook her head.
“Business has been fabulous, and you know it. And since it’s you who hates car ads—yet you took on this one—why don’t you just give it to Darrell and let him do his computer thing and call it good?”
“Because I’m stubborn.”
“And it has nothing to do with the deal he gave you on your new Jeep?”
Yuri childishly stuck her tongue out at SooYoung, then slipped into the tiny corner kitchen, suspiciously eyeing the coffee that had been brewed some five hours earlier. Her semi-addiction to coffee had it’s limits. She took a water bottle from the fridge instead. Leaning against the counter, she gazed out through the kitchen door opening to the office.
They’d started their agency six years ago, building it up ever so slowly. The first two years had been lean and they’d talked about quitting, yet they hung on. Their break came when a new restaurant opened up in their small city. A young couple with a dream of duplicating their parents’ auth
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