26
One Year Later
Ashleigh’s eyes swept the room, and her heart felt like it was bursting with pride as she surveyed her handiwork. She’d been working nonstop for weeks on making this gala into the best the county had ever seen and looking around the room now, it had been worth every single minute of work she had put into it.
Her eyes glistened as she remembered reading a quote once about how it was a beautiful thing when a career and a passion came together and in that very moment, she wholeheartedly agreed. It truly was a most beautiful thing.
When she’d read the quote for the first time, she’d rolled her eyes and scoffed at the idea that she could ever be passionate about her work, without even getting started on it being beautiful. Although it wasn’t a huge surprise that she’d neve
