Aiden and I were the last ones to join Ethan and Serena, who had already ordered a drink and I apologized feeling guilty. I did tell Aiden to go ahead without me but he didn't trust me to rock up so he had waited. Even though I made small chit-chat, my mind was on the deadline that I had to meet. The end of the financial year was upon us which meant that busy time was back and my work would only pick up. I had to tell Joe to start hiring more people, we were way behind on jobs and my biggest fear was a reputation risk. I had built up everything from scratch and a small negative review could definitely impact my business massively. I was currently trusting everything to be done without my approval since the connection was bad. This cruise could not have come at a worse time for me. “Do

