Chapter 271

‘See you.’ I stood at the door, waving as Étienne climbed into the car with the rest of his delegation, my smile fixed in place. The moment the cars disappeared down the drive, my team erupted into cheers. Peter Carl crushed me in a hug. Louis-François nearly tripped over his own feet sprinting back inside for the case of champagne he had been saving. ‘We did it!’ Clémentine flung her arms around us, her voice thick with emotion. ‘Mirabelle, we did it!’ I wriggled free, grinning until my cheeks ached. ‘Yeah. We did.’ After two gruelling months, our autumn/winter jewellery collection was finally launched. Today’s meeting sealed the deal with Cartier’s Paris distribution arm. Soon, our necklaces, earrings and statement pieces would adorn runway models and grace the pages of Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar. Valmont & Cie was still bleeding from the financial crater Fabrizio had left, but this was a start. A damn good one. The team herded me into the conference room. Champagne corks popped