“Ok alright, I should have stayed and finished up, but I had to get home, it wasn’t my fault the studio we hired had shite equipment” Ashley snapped, she knew she should be grovelling right now, but Ashley wasn’t the type of person who grovelled to anyone but Spencer.

“Ashley, your priorities are with your contract now, if you don’t fulfil them, your in breach which means the company can sue you, for A LOT of money!” The tall silver haired man snapped, he was an old friend of Raife Davies, and had always had a soft spot for his daughter but as her manager he couldn’t let her ruin herself.

“You know what, no they don’t, and my priorities lie with my wife!” Ashley stood from the leather chair and paced back and forth, “my wife and my child” she glared at Bill.

“Child?”

“Yeah, Spence is, we are pregnant, were having a baby” Ashley smiled unsure how her manager would take this news. He pulled her into a tight hug and held it for a while.

“I wish so much Raife could be here for this, he would be so proud of his little girl” Bill smiled sadly.

“You know, I always used to think like that myself, but if Spencer has taught me anything, its that he is here, he’s always here looking after me in some way, and right now he’s pissed as hell at you for shouting at me” Ashley smiled hoping that using her dad would get her out of trouble.

“Ash what do you want me to do, you broke your contract… this is serious stuff” he sighed, his earlier anger now gone.

“Ok when is the absolute latest I can submit to demo?” Ashley said sadly.

“Well yesterday” he sighed again.

“ok ring the guys, and tell them if they can give us another 48 hours, I will have it in their hands, I don’t know tell them I had a family emergency and had to rush home, lay a guilt trip on them…. Tell them I lost my voice or something” Ashley smiled coyly.

“Ok wait there” He smiled, he knew Ashley had him wrapped around her little finger, but he didn’t really mind, she was after all the talented Davies daughter, even if she didn’t carry the name anymore. He left the room leaving Ashley sitting in his office, she glanced around and noticed a picture she hadn’t noticed before on the sideboard, she stood and picked it up running her fingers over her fathers face. It had been taken years ago, when she was 15 almost 16, she remembered it because it was the day after she found out she was pregnant, she looked at her own face in the picture and could see the pain and misery in her eyes. She placed it back down and walked to the large windows overlooking Sunset Boulevard, there were hundreds of people below, getting on with their lives and rushing around.