After following patiently for a while, Laura Graph finally found a gap, came to Simon, and took the initiative to stretch out her hand to introduce herself: "Hello, Mr. Westeros, I'm Laura. ”

Simon had just greeted several of the main creators of "Seinfeld", and when he heard this, he reached out and shook the woman in front of him, not pretending not to know, but also not enthusiastic, his eyes did not hide his gaze and looked at the tall charm wrapped in the deep V Gucci dress of the woman in front of him, and said, "Hello." ”

Laura Grave had already brewed the topic of accosting her, and was about to speak, when Jerry Hall, who had just come to Simon's side and did not leave, suddenly leaned into the man's ear and whispered a few words, Simon nodded with a smile, and then gestured slightly to Laura Gravelf, and turned around and walked away with the woman next to him.

Laura Graph subconsciously followed two steps, but still stopped, she had not forgotten the etiquette of a party, stalking would only be annoying. Cursing inwardly to the woman beside Westeros, Laura Graph continued to smile gracefully on the surface, pretending to be useless, but her attention never took away from the figure of a man.

Grace Sprout watched the entire pick-up process of Laura Graff, and was a little puzzled, but she could only think of it as a big man's desire to indulge.

However, now that Simon Westeros has arrived, her busy work for more than a month has finally come to fruition.

It's just a little bit, so it's better to be cautious.

Grace returned to Laura Gravelf, intending to keep her eyes on each other until the end.

Laura Graph noticed Grace approaching her, and didn't think much about it, but said a little smugly, "Grace, did you notice Westeros' eyes just now?

Grace whispered, of course, she wouldn't expose anything, and continued to stay by the woman's side and socialize at the party.

About half an hour later, Laura Gruff, who had been paying attention to Simon's movements, suddenly found that Westeros was walking towards the door of the hall, still with Jerry Hall, who was still holding the man's arm.

This is, going to leave?

Grace also noticed the movement in the direction of the doorway, and was immediately a little frustrated.

I have to continue to boil it myself!

A man didn't give them much time to react, and the figure quickly disappeared into the doorway of the hall.

However, when the hearts of the two women were full of disappointment, a middle-aged man with a tall bodyguard in a suit walked directly to the two, glanced at Laura Gralph, turned to Grace, and said, "Excuse me, are you Ms. Spurt, Ms. Gralph's agent?"

Grace nodded hurriedly: "Yes, you are?"

As he spoke, he politely reached over.

The middle-aged man didn't shake hands with Grace, but directly handed over a business card: "Ms. Spurt, I'm Mr. Westeros's bodyguard, he's very interested in Ms. Gralph, if you have time, call this tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning." ”

After saying this, he left a business card, and the middle-aged man turned around and left.

Laura Grahlfe didn't react until Simon's bodyguard walked away, turned her head to look at her agent, and found that Grace had put away the business card, and immediately reached over, with eagerness in her eyes: "Grace, that gentleman just said that Mr. Westeros is interested in me, and the business card should be for me." ”

Grace just shook her head: "I heard you clearly, this is for me." ”

Laura Graveph asked for no avail, so she could only give up for the time being, and in the blink of an eye, she realized something and asked, "How did Westeros know that you were my agent?"

Grace said that you were not stupid at all, and said casually, "You think about what kind of party this is, Mr. Westeros wants to know the identity of a guest, and it is not a matter of words." ”

Laura Gralph immediately accepted this explanation, and looked at Grace's Kun bag with a business card: "Tomorrow morning, we should make this call together, right?"

Grace shook her head and said, "Mr. Westeros should be very busy, and even if he wants to go on a date with you, it won't have to be tomorrow." Laura, I'm leaving, will you come along?"

"It's only nine o'clock, and it's still early. ”

"Then you can stay here by yourself. ”

Grace said, also walking towards the door of the hall, and Laura Graff paused, but followed.

If Laura Grave really doesn't leave, Grace will have to stay, and she doesn't want anything to go wrong on the last night. However, she is also sure that the other party will definitely follow, so she insists on leaving.

The two walked out of the Grand Hotel together, got into Grace's car in the parking lot, the car just started, and Laura Grave, who was sitting in the passenger seat, quickly said: "Grace, can you lend me $500, Cathy and Victoria haven't had dinner yet, I have to bring something to eat." ”

In fact, before going to the party, the youngest daughter hoped that she could sneak some of the buffet back from the party.

Laura Graff couldn't do such an unseemly thing.

Moreover, all her attention was spent on social socializing, and although the buffet in the party hall was very rich, she didn't have time to eat at all, and she finally felt hungry when she left the party.

In the past month or so, the Graff family has owed more than $26,000 due to various bad things, of which $18,000 comes from Grace personally.

The job of a modeling agent is far from being as glamorous as the outside world thinks.

The number of contracted models of the entire Elite has reached 2,000, and the top batch of models are all directly held by John Casablanca and other management. Grace manages more than 30 girls under her name, and five or six of them can earn more than $100,000 a year, which is a little famous, which makes her one of the top agents under Elite, but Grace's current annual income is actually only about $100,000.

$18,000 is also a lot of money for her.

Now, borrowing money again, and asking for $500 to buy dinner, there are not many restaurants in Manhattan that cost $500 for a meal, if you don't take into account the expensive drinks.

Thinking so depressedly, passing by a steakhouse, Grace pulled over the car and motioned, "Is steak okay?"

Laura Graff looked at it a few times, and reluctantly said, "Okay, then, let's go down and eat together, you must be hungry too, right?" After that, just pack two copies and give them to Cathy. ”

Is this a mother's thing to say?

Grace was again in a belly and had to get out of the car together, tossed by this woman all night, and she was also hungry.

The impromptu meal took more than an hour, but most of the time Laura Grahlfe was talking to Grace about how to sell herself to meet Westeros tomorrow, and when she finally left, it was already half past ten in the middle of the night, and sure enough, she casually packed two steaks for her two daughters.

Sending Laura Graff back to her apartment, Grace can finally return home.

Her husband, who works at the First Boston Stock Exchange, did not rest, and first went to the bedroom of the two children to see the sleeping son and daughter, Grace returned to the living room, leaned back on the sofa, took a sip of coffee from her husband, and finally relaxed. Knowing that she had recently taken on a few difficult clients, her husband asked with a smile, but Grace didn't say much, laughed at herself, and asked about the other party's work, and the man also flickered a little.

The couple got married twelve years ago and have always had a good relationship, but when they reach middle age, they also have their own ups and downs.

As a woman, in the modeling agency industry, Grace's career has basically reached the ceiling, and trying her best to manage the affairs of the Grave family during this time is also the last hope in my heart.

As for the husband, he was full of ambition when he got married, and after so many years, he was only a vice president who managed a trading team of more than ten people, and anyone who knew a little bit knew that in the large investment industry, there are often hundreds of vice presidents, which is just a title, and the power of the vice president of the entity enterprise is very different.

Because of her unsatisfactory career, the promise she made to her full-time wife when she got married has not been fulfilled so far.

Grace even knows that Credit Suisse, the parent company of First Boston, is still laying off and integrating the Wall Street investment bank, and her husband, who is over 40 years old and is only a grassroots supervisor, is likely to be eliminated.

Thinking of this, Grace couldn't help but think of her recent errands, thinking of the young man who was only 26 years old this year and was already standing at the top of the world pyramid overlooking all living beings, thinking about whether this would be a small turning point in her career, and even thinking a little crooked in the end.

It is said that the young man was very fond of mature women.

She got up early the next day just after six o'clock, prepared breakfast for her husband and children, arranged her schedule for the day in advance for a bunch of girls under her name, and made a special call to her boss John Casablanca, during which Laura Grahlf also called and explained how she should talk about herself to Westeros, and was so busy until nine o'clock in the morning that she finally found the business card from last night and dialed the phone number above.

She was then told to rush to Greenwich City, Connecticut.

Fortunately, there was no need to drive dozens of kilometers, and a helicopter transfer had been arranged for her on the banks of the Hudson River.

At around half-past nine, the helicopter landed at a manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich, where a baby-faced girl greeted her, introduced herself as Zoe Parks, and entered the manor house with Grace.

Due to the professional habits of a model agent, Grace only thinks that if the girl in front of her who is tall but has a cat-like baby face enters the fashion industry, it is definitely easy to become popular, and the demand for baby-faced models is still very high in recent years.

However, she immediately laughed at herself, the maids around Westeros have an annual salary higher than her, not to mention the development prospects of Claire Gain, Alice Ferguson and other girls, girls with a little brains will not give up this job and go to the fashion industry.

The fashion circle is bright on the surface, but it is a rotten quagmire in private.

Arranged for Grace to sit down in a living room next to the living room and bring coffee, and Zoe explained, "The boss is busy, Ms. Spelt, you need to wait a minute." ”

Grace took the coffee and smiled, "It's okay. ”

Zoe offered to turn on the TV again, handed the remote control to her, said she had something to do, and turned to leave the living room.

Grace waited for Zoe to leave, then looked around.

Although it is a living room for the host to relax, the room is more than 60 square meters, divided into two parts: a lounge area and a small bar, with a warm decoration in pale yellow tones, and the artwork on the walls, the decorative bookshelves for isolation, and the black bar counter on the inside make the whole room appear to be layered and complement each other, which is obviously carefully designed.

I once fantasized about owning such a country villa, but unfortunately after so many years, many of the initial expectations have long since become extravagant expectations.

Then I remembered a thought from last night again.

Immediately felt that she was delusional, in fact, her appearance was not bad, at first, she also wanted to be a model, but she became a model agent by mistake.

Forcing herself to dispel some unrealistic ideas, Grace couldn't help but guess what Westeros was doing at this time.

Just now Zoe said that his boss was busy. However, last night the man seemed to have left with Jerry Hall, and he was surrounded by a group of warblers and swallows all the time, and when he reached his current wealth and status, it seemed that he didn't need to fight for anything, perhaps, it wasn't necessary to get up yet.

Simon, of course, was already up.

At this time, he was in another study of the villa discussing the formation of the Westeros family security team with Celia Miller, who arrived early.

Simon has thought about this for a long time, but he has not been able to spare time and energy.

Now that several private military companies have been set up to cover security operations, it is certainly possible to proceed with this matter.

"A lot of rich people like to use special forces as bodyguards, which is actually very unprofessional. The attributes of professional soldiers are more inclined to offensive 'weapons', and the more top-level soldiers are, the more so, but if they are used as 'shields', even if they are re-trained in a twisting style, they are difficult to qualify, except of course, for war zone security, where offensive soldiers are needed. As for the professional security team in a peaceful environment, it is best to select ordinary people and train them from scratch according to the standard of 'shields', and the proportion of agents of the Federal Secret Service in charge of the president and high-level security is very small, and most of them are recruited and trained from the society. ”

In the study, Celia explained to Simon some professional common sense that most people would misunderstand, and said: "As for our security team, I recommend selecting from various professional sports schools, or sports students from some universities, so as to ensure that they have good enough physical fitness first. If you are not in a hurry, boss, it is best for us to carry out fixed-point funding and training from the beginning of the freshman entering the university, and after graduating from college, you can start working directly. ”

Simon nodded, expressed his approval, and said: "However, I need you to train a group of female guards as soon as possible, this matter is urgent, my wife and children, as well as you, all need to be equipped with such candidates." ”

In fact, there are some female bodyguards in the family, but there are not many of them. And, most importantly, Simon doesn't trust them too much.

Celia heard the man bluntly say that she also had a share, and she came over with a charming look, then retracted and said seriously: "In this case, you can first poach a group of people from other security companies." ”

Simon shook his head and said, "I need to be completely cultivated from scratch, and the most important thing is that I can be trusted, even if there are temporary flaws in my professional quality." ”

The main security work of the Westeros family is still in charge of male bodyguards for the time being, Simon just hopes that there will be an extra layer of trust around the women and children, and after thinking about it, he said: "Or you can choose some female soldiers, they have a good foundation." ”

Celia immediately shook her head: "Boss, you'd better dispel this thought." ”

Simon wondered, "Why?"

Celia hesitated for a moment, but still said frankly: "In the federal army, the proportion of female soldiers who are violated is very high, much higher than the worst imagination of the outside world. So, boss, you should be able to imagine the psychological state of the female soldiers of the Federation, most of whom simply cannot pass the initial psychological test. Even, if some pass the psychological test, it will bring more uncertainty. ”

When Simon heard Celia explain this, he immediately remembered a lot of information in his memory, and at the same time dispelled this thought.

Maybe those people deserve sympathy, but Simon won't recruit them to his side.

The potential uncertainty for patients with PTSD can be understood by what Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver" did.

After Celia finished speaking, she noticed that Simon's eyes looked at her slightly strangely, and she suddenly glanced at the man and said, "I only worked in the Ministry of Defense, and I have no service experience. Moreover, because of my husband's family, no one dared to do anything to me when I was working in the Ministry of Defense. ”