For the next two days, Jace didn't let Phoebe go to work. He just had her stay home to rest and complete all the tasks he had assigned. As for the evenings, he no longer specifically told Phoebe to sleep in his room.
Phoebe was so overwhelmed by the mountain of tasks Jace had given her that she had no time for idle thoughts. She threw herself completely into her studies and, in just a few days, her progress was astonishing.
By the time she finally produced a design draft she was satisfied with and had mastered intermediate techniques for drawing digital comics, an entire week had passed.
Only when her mind finally had a moment to rest did she remember that she hadn't been to the company for another week.
She had been fired from her part-time job at the coffee shop for taking too much time off.
The realization made Phoebe's stomach drop.
She gathered the design drafts she had drawn over the past few days and rushed to the company.
