By a Thread: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy by Score Lucy

Author:Score, Lucy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: That's What She Said Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

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I was still reeling by the time I got downstairs. One thing that I really liked about this job was the car service. It wasn’t Nelson but a female driver who opened the back door for me. And the backseat was occupied by a very stylish Dalessandra.

“I thought we’d ride together and we could chat,” she said, patting the seat.

There are moments in everyone’s life when they stop, breathe, and wonder who the hell’s life they’re actually living. Cruising through Midtown in a limo with one of the fashion industry’s most influential icons next to me in a design that had obviously been made just for her was one of those moments.

“You look lovely,” she said. “That dress.”

“Me? Look at your dress.” Even seated and in the dim interior light, she stunned. The gown was layers and layers of silver and gray and cream arranged like swan feathers. Slouchy suede boots that I would have sold an ovary for peeked out from the hem.

“Perks of the job,” she said, waving away the compliment. “Now, how are things?”

“Things are fine,” I fibbed. My neck started to itch.

“Fine? Everyone you’ve met. Everyone you’ve talked to on staff. They’re all fine?”

I was not mentally prepared for this conversation. No, what I’d spent all day girding my loins for was seeing Dominic outside work.

I would not inappropriately touch my boss tonight.

I would not inappropriately touch my boss tonight.

I’d repeated the mantra all damn day.

The past two weeks had been an exquisite kind of torture. Every morning when he arrived and walked past my desk, I smelled that body wash of his and was immediately transported back to his home, his shower, the reason I’d been in his shower.

And then I had to remind myself why I was barely speaking to the man.

“What about Dominic?” Dalessandra asked, pursing her red, red lips together.

“What about him?” I hedged.

She slid a knowing gaze to me. “You two are close.”

I shook my head vehemently enough to have a hairpin fly out and land in my lap. “We’re really not.”

“You are,” she insisted. “Is he happy? Does he hate me for what I’ve asked of him?”

I cleared my throat and felt disloyal to a man who hadn’t officially earned my loyalty. “I don’t think anyone would say that Dominic is a happy man,” I ventured.

“But you see beneath all that bluster.” Dalessandra made the statement like it was a fact. “Is he really unhappy? Did I ask too much of him in stepping in to clean up his father’s mess?”

I considered gnawing my lipstick off but then decided it wasn’t worth the tongue lashing I’d get from Linus if he saw the pictures.

“I don’t know exactly what happened last year,” I said with a sigh. “Hell, nobody seems to except for you and Dom. And maybe that’s part of the problem. But no, he doesn’t hate you. Beneath all those sexy vests and grumpy snarls, he’s a caretaker. He wants you to be happy. He wants to make you happy.

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