Love Forged by M. L. Ray

Author:M. L. Ray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: forbidden jealous love angst triangle fiction ya, love is a beautiful thing only today at first down, love the greatest thing in the world at first note, twisted love a brothers best friend romance story, love at first spell crush taste haunt the library, love the way you hurt gangster at last box set, forbidden love affair with a thug at first click, love at a house party first light hate spite fight
Publisher: M L Ray Publication House
Published: 2021-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

OLIVIA WAS SEATED AT the drafting table in her home office, sketching out a few new designs for a Christmas collection of flirty holiday chapeaus, when the telephone rang. Her main business address of 100 Mission Road, which she had turned over to Jeff with the transfer of accounts, was located in the city itself. There she maintained a humble first floor warehouse that housed not only her primary office but also workspace for employees and their equipment, storage space for materials, and modest space for a shipping and receiving department.

So far, she and a part-time admin had been able to handle incoming and outgoing work orders, marketing, bookkeeping, and all the other thousand and one details that must be taken care of in a small fledgling business. As her contacts and reputation were growing exponentially, however, she could see that a transition would have to be made in the near future. Either more area must be acquired here, allowing JustLivvie’s to branch out and stretch out, or another, larger warehouse must be found in the vicinity.

The prospect was frightening and exciting, stomach-curdling and skin-tingling, all at once.

Today Olivia had decided to work at home, for various reasons, and she’d been making great headway—pardon the pun—until the phone’s chime interrupted.

Putting aside the several sharpened colored pencils to pick up her cell, she answered. “Oh, hi, Mom. Yes, I’m doubling down on a project right now, but that’s okay. How’s everything out your way?”

Her mother, reassured, spent the next few minutes catching up her daughter on local news. Both of Ran’s kids, away at summer camp, had wandered off from the main group and gotten into a patch of poison ivy, the little devils. Of course it wasn’t life-threatening, but they were miserable enough to demand early release. Charlie’s wedding plans were moving along, although his fiancé was in a tizzy over the possible delayed shipment of two bridesmaids’ dresses. Nothing out of the ordinary happening with Jason, and then there was Austin. But you know Austin.

“Yes, Mom,” Olivia agreed comfortably. “I know Austin. Coasting, right? And Dad’s about tearing his hair out, wondering why the boy hasn’t graduated yet.” Leaning back in her chair, she stretched out one bare foot to tickle the top of Bruno’s ears. He was, as usual, piled up in a heap as close to her as possible, and snoring to beat the band. “Are you feeling all right?”

Just last winter, a sudden crisis with Dorothy Bower’s health had sent ricochets of alarm reverberating through the family. Vague, disturbing symptoms had taken doctors some time to pin down, until finally a rheumatologist had determined the cause to be something called fibromyalgia.

So far she had been able to cope, mostly by taking better care of herself after a lifetime of taking care of others while neglecting her own well-being. Plenty of rest, mild exercise, massage therapy, and pain medication when necessary had been giving her some relief from the overwhelming fatigue and the intense discomfort of burning muscles and excruciatingly tender pressure points.

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