2017 Christmas Coda: The Greek Tycoons by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Collections & Anthologies, Novella Length Storys, Short Story, Reader Favorites, Harlequin Presents, Greek Tycoon Books, Questions & Answers, Main Character Glimpses
Publisher: Lucy Monroe LLC
Published: 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Sandor & Eleanor (Ellie) Christofides

from Bought: The Greek's Bride (2007)

20+ years after Sandor & Ellie married.

Ellie's heart beat a rapid tattoo in her chest as she looked around the new Agape Resource Center in San Diego. The culmination of a decade long dream, ARC was now in twenty major US cities, Barcelona, Athens and two of the smaller Greek Islands. The idea for the resource center had been her daughter's.

Ellie had been complaining yet again to Sandor how the State, which was supposed to help the unemployed get back on their feet and build better lives was too often hampered by red tape, or the client's desire to get a handout, not a hand up. She wanted to help her clients get necessary education, contacts, even proper interview attire, but her caseload was ridiculous and not conductive to focus on the individual. Then there were the clients that habituated a pattern of working just long enough to be eligible for benefits before managing to get back into the system again.

She wanted to be able to offer counseling to workers who seemed intent on self-sabotage, but also to those who suffered from a loss of self-esteem after losing a job they may have worked at for years due to downsizing, or just a shift in their employer's economic focus.

Cynthia, ten years old at the time, had asked why Ellie didn't start her own employment office and make her own rules. Sandor had looked at Ellie in that way he had, the one that said he believed she was capable of anything and said, "Why don't you?"

Ellie had spluttered, talked it over with her sister and ultimately, with financial help from their dad, Sandor, and Amber's husband, Miguel Menendez, they had launched the first Agape Resource Center a year later in her hometown of Boston. Resource Counselors were trained to utilize all resources available, how to assess a client's genuine need and guide their clients toward the most useful and productive resources for that particular client.

The Boston facility was soon at maximum capacity, going to two shifts to double the use of their space, offering programs and counseling to their beneficiaries from 8 a.m. to midnight. Ellie, who had never desired to be a business manager or director of any kind, had been at a loss as to what to do. But her sister had stepped in, offering to take on the directorship so they could open a second facility.

Amber and Ellie shared responsibility for fundraising, applying for grants and the like, while it was primarily Ellie's vision that guided what the ARCs would offer in terms of services and training.

"Did you think we'd see this day?" Sandor asked from beside her.

She smiled up at her husband of more than twenty years. "I never even knew I wanted to, but I can't imagine anything more satisfying."

"You have always had a heartening ability to focus in on the individual."

"While people like you and my father tend to see things globally." She leaned into Sandor and his strong arm automatically came around her.

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