Defeat (Book 2 of the Sutton series): A Friends With Benefits Romance by Evelyn Sola

Author:Evelyn Sola [Sola, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

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“What the fuck is going on?” I ask my brother the instant we get back into his car. He slides into the driver’s seat and sighs. “They were on some serious bullshit. I don’t know why they agreed to this meeting because it’s obvious to me that they’re not going to hire us.”

I start the car and pull out of the parking lot. I raise my left hand and give the building behind me the middle finger.

“Mature,” Max says. “I got the same impression.”

We don’t get every account, but there was something odd about the way this small business interacted with us. Small, local businesses are our specialty. We build on the fact that we were once a small, local business too.

This chain of convenience stores in Rhode Island initially contacted me for a marketing strategy, but once we arrived today, it’s like they were back peddling. This is the second time this has happened in two weeks. Companies normally seek us out, and once we have a meeting, it’s almost guaranteed we’ll be drawing up a contract.

“We wouldn’t even need these fuckers if things didn’t go to shit in Silicon Valley.” Max gives me a death glare, but I ignore him. He doesn’t scare me. Silicon Valley wasn’t his fault, but if we had gotten the contract with the software company there, we could have stopped chasing new business for a while.

Since Celia went to college with the owner of the business, we lost the account when we fired her.

“Don’t bring up Silicon Valley ever again,” Max warns. “I’m still pissed off about it.”

“Have you heard from Celia?” I ask him.

“Why the hell would I hear from her?” he practically yells in the car. “Has she contacted you again?”

“She sent a text yesterday asking to meet with me,” I tell him. “I haven’t replied, and I don’t plan to. I think we’ve said all there is to say, but Mom said Celia’s parents won’t talk to her anymore.”

“Good riddance,” Max says. “Their daughter is a menace, and our mother is better off. What has that family ever done for us, and who the hell is Celia to demand anything?”

He’s not wrong, but her parents are old friends of our parents. After our dad died, they were a great support to us and our mother. I hold my tongue and don’t tell Max that our mother approached me about the idea of inviting them to Max’s wedding as an olive branch.

After I laughed for a full five minutes, I told her that was the worst idea she’s ever had.

“What?” he asks. “You’re keeping something from me.”

He’s six years older, and once upon a time, I followed him around and worshipped the ground he walked on. He never told me to get lost. He took me everywhere and taught me everything. Whenever I got into trouble, I’d go to him first, and he would always defend me to our parents. The downside is that he knows me more than anyone else on earth.

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